100% CPU Services.exe

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I have a machine that will all of a sudden have SERVICES.EXE spike to 100%
and stay there for a long time. It does go on and off, but I need to know
what service is actually causing it to happen. How do I pinpoint which
service is utilizing my resources?

I am using 2000 SP4 with all patches installed (I think one of them may have
triggered this, but I don't know.) I just did a system wipe, installed 2000
SP3, updated, and patched my way to this.
 
From a command prompt;
tlist -s
tlist pid
may be of some use. You can extract the tlist.exe utility from the
Support.cab file from the Windows 2000 installation CD's Support\Tools
folder.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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Tlist was exactly what I was looking for, thanks.

Turns out it was my fault... too many hosts in hosts file. DNScache was
having a fit. I was finally able to get into Event viewer to detemine that
(took about 10 minutes.) I had to to coax it along using Task manager,
increasing the permissions to high to get ahead of the service.
 
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