Svchost.exe ?

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Franklin

I have the svchost.exe taking up 98% of the cpu. IS there any tools I can
use to fix this? And my Internet has gone south.
 
try to find out which of your services is causing it and shut it down in
msconfig.
How did you do your install.
 
The only problem there is that there are, in most cases, MANY instances of
svchost running, because there are a lot of apps that load it up. You have
to find out which HOST app is using it. Or is the problem that you have
several of them running and the combination of them are using 98% of your
CPU resources?

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|I have the svchost.exe taking up 98% of the cpu. IS there any tools I can
| use to fix this? And my Internet has gone south.
|
|
 
The only problem there is that there are, in most cases, MANY
instances of svchost running, because there are a lot of apps that
load it up. You have to find out which HOST app is using it. Or is
the problem that you have several of them running and the combination
of them are using 98% of your CPU resources?
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Hi,
Its just one and I can't get into the tools, to close it down.
I just reinstalled xp and trying to download it again.
 
You can close it down with task manager unless it is a required process.
Most aren't. Then in msconfig once you narrow which host is using it, you
can stop loading on startup .
 
I'm having a similar problem with an old Compaq 5340 with XP right now, and
if Franklin's problem is the same on Vista as the one I'm having with the
Compaq on XP, you probably cannot get into the task manager to shut it down.
 
| I'm having a similar problem with an old Compaq 5340 with XP right now,
and
| if Franklin's problem is the same on Vista as the one I'm having with the
| Compaq on XP, you probably cannot get into the task manager to shut it
down.


On my XP Pro x86 system on this machine, I get the DE shutting down an
instance of svchost and then a normal windows error that will keep poping up
if I close it (so I have to move it off the screen to use the system...It's
quite annoying and, as of yet, I haven't worked out which of the 13 startup
apps I have that call svchost it is causing the problem...

I have, lately, simply been having to put up with it, as there are certain
things I have to use that OS to do...

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Takali S. Omega
Manager, Raven Mill Computers
Owner, SynTaks E-Works
Host of TechTAK on KFAR 660am
------------------------------------------------------------
ASUS P5N32SLI Deluxe
Intel Presler Pentium D 950
2GB OCZ DDR2-800
2x eVGA 7600 SLI
2x WD 250 SATA2
-------------------------------------
 
Turning off the start-up apps is pretty axiomatic as most of those will
start when they are called by another function, but those on the services
tab you can stop those non Microsoft items that won't put your system at
risk (i.e. virus). There is a checkbox to show only the non Microsoft
items.
 
The only problem there is that there are, in most cases, MANY instances of
svchost running, because there are a lot of apps that load it up. You
have
to find out which HOST app is using it. Or is the problem that you have
several of them running and the combination of them are using 98% of your
CPU resources?
Click to expand...

SysInternal's Process Explorer should help determine which services are
loaded by that particular instance of svchost.exe hogging the CPU, given its
Process ID.
 
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