SVCHOST.EXE

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PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk top
it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work on
the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and runs
fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem to
do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit to
4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he lost
all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
him? Also turning off all programs in msconfig/startup
does not help......
 
Try using Spybot Search and Destroy. It sounds like some kind of intrusion
to me. I'm sure you know this, but I'll repeat it anyway, just in case it
slipped your mind. Update his firewall, anti-virus and check Windows Update
for the latest critical updates from Microsoft.
 
Thanks for the reply...yes I ran Spybot and a few other
spyware programs. He has all the lastest updates
installed. He had Microsoft on the phone for over two
hours today and they could not help him.
 
Check event viewer for errors that correspond to the time when the problem
occurs. Since it happens each time you boot the system, you should see such
an error, if any, for each boot. Double click the error, the information
contained within my give a hint as to the source of the issue.

As to the graphics problem, running sfc likely corrupted or changed the
driver for the graphics card, it's possible the correct driver wasn't
installed previously either so XP may have replaced it with the best one it
could find in Windows setup. Check the card manufacturer's website for the
latest driver or check whatever driver was being used previously. If it's
the same driver is currently installed, the driver is corrupted, remove it
and reinstall it.
 
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