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I noticed that I have 8 sychost.exe files running in taskmaster..Is that
normal?
two say network service
two say local service
4 say system
 
GMG said:
I noticed that I have 8 sychost.exe files running in taskmaster..Is that
normal?
two say network service
two say local service
4 say system
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I assume that you mean svchost.exe? If so yes it's normal to have
several instances of it running, 8 instances seems like quite a few but
it all depends on which services you have running on the computer. You
can see what is being run in each of them by issuing the following
command a Command Prompt:

tasklist /svc

Tasklist is included with Windows XP Pro but not with XP Home, if you
have XP Home you can download Tasklist.exe here:
http://www.computerhope.com/download/winxp.htm Download it and put it
in your Windows\System32 folder.

For more information about svchost.exe see here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056
A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP Professional Edition

John
 
GMG said:
I noticed that I have 8 sychost.exe files running in taskmaster..Is that
normal?
two say network service
two say local service
4 say system
Click to expand...

Description of svchost
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056

Information and help with svchost.exe
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000517.htm

Description of service wrappers
http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-services-wrapper.html

To see what processes have been rolled into an instance of svchost.exe, use
SysInternals' Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com).
 
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