Same process appears four times...

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When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, the processes list shows me all the processes I'm running, I've noticed that the process called svchost.exe appears 4 times in the list. Two are being ran by SYSTEM (14.244Kb and 4.380 Kb each), another one by NETWORK SERVICE (3.376 kB) and another one by LOCAL SERVICE (3.412 KB). As you guys can see, there's a lot of RAM being used by them. My question (s) is what is this svchost.exe used for, and why there are four of it running. If I could close three of them, I would be saving a lot of RAM already... is it possible

Thanks in advance
Airton
 
Airton,

As said by Wes, 4 [or 5] instances of SVCHOST is normal. Each SVCHOST process launches certain services which can be tracked using Tasklist.exe [only for XP Professional]. For XP Home, you may download the file from the URL given:

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/svchost.htm
[Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP]

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, the processes list shows me all the processes I'm running, I've noticed that the process called svchost.exe appears 4 times in the list. Two are being ran by SYSTEM (14.244Kb and 4.380 Kb each), another one by NETWORK SERVICE (3.376 kB) and another one by LOCAL SERVICE (3.412 KB). As you guys can see, there's a lot of RAM being used by them. My question (s) is what is this svchost.exe used for, and why there are four of it running. If I could close three of them, I would be saving a lot of RAM already... is it possible?

Thanks in advance,
Airton
 
Hanging in there, Ramesh. Just installed XP Pro
two days ago. Still sorting things out. :o)


Wes

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Ramesh said:
Doing fine. How about you?, Wes

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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Hi Ramesh;

How goes it?


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Ramesh said:
Airton,

As said by Wes, 4 [or 5] instances of SVCHOST is normal. Each SVCHOST
process launches certain services which can be tracked using
Tasklist.exe [only for XP Professional]. For XP Home, you may
download the file from the URL given:

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/svchost.htm
[Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP]
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