svchost.exe full throttle after boot...

When I boot XP there's a svchost.exe task running one cpu at full throttle for several minutes. In my dual core lappy we are full 50% utilization in taskman.

If I kill the task I can't access any shares on the network. A log out & back in doesn't fix it, have to reboot. So I suspect it's soemthing to do with accessing the domain...


I know svchost is a provider of network services, but I wish there was some way to see who/what was calling it. Sometimes there are many many svchost.exe tasks running, but I don't know how to see what's calling them.


I suspect this is benign and not some sort of intrusion, but I would sure like to understand why ONLY my laptop does this (no other machines on my network do this.) It has passed several different virus and spyware tests.

 

Hmm.. I recommend running procexp (like Task Manager, but gives more info) first to see what the name of the service is..

 

Try creating a new user profile...

 

This is normal and is not considered an issue.

 

My computer does this when I first boot up, too. I heard it was pretty normal, so while it does annoy me, I just deal with it.

Best solution I came up with was to reboot as little as possible! If I put my computer to sleep, it does not happen either, but it will after hibernation. I see you're on XP, so that may not mean much to you though.

 

tasklist /svc

 

I've found svchost.exe does this when I have my torrent client open and active, so it's definitely network related. But like others said benign at boot.

 

I have it the same way on startup when my Nod32 AV starts up and there`s no network...it`ll hold the system non responsive for about 10 seconds.

 

Process Explorer by Sysinternals is another great program for identifying these duplicate processes.

 

I had the same problem. try to look here, or here, or here. I read them all ad tried one of them. I cant remember which, but ne of them sure worked!!!