Vista - SVCHOST.exe Keeps on Running and Ruins My Computers Performance!!...

This file called SVCHOST.exe is consuming my RAM, hard drive, CPU and
everything on my Vista machine to capacity use. I know the real one is a
necessary program, but there are many copies of this file working
simultaneously here and my performance is down to a crawl or a crash. I've
looked everywhere for a solution and have tried a couple to no avail. I get
no working answers from anyone. Many, many other Windows users are getting
this in massive amounts, too, so it's not isolated to me. Everything slows
to a crawl often several times a day. I often have to restart.

I am told it might be one or more viruses that does this, and I've been told
it might be an unfixed bug in Vista, but no square answers. My scans and
virus updates from Norton and MS haven't fixed this problem.

I am now seriously thinking of copying my whole disk to an outboard memory
and reintalling Linux on my machine instead of Windows Vista, as no one
seems to want to address this issue in the Vista world, even though it is
obviously a very prevalent problem.

Please, someone, HELP!!

Thank you in advance.

To make you feel better, I have 13 running with no loss of performance. Did you
check other processes like Indexing or something else that is running and open
without you seeing it

--
Peter

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"Ken" <kenmendell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ken wrote:There is nothing wrong with a cross-post on this instead of making a
post to each NG individually.


Svchost.exe does nothing on its own. Svchost.exe as its name implies
host other processes. Those processes can be legit processes or they can
be non-legit processes such as malware that are being hosted.

If Svchost.exe is not running out of Windows/System32 then it's a Trojan.

Process Explorer will allow you to look inside each Svchost.exe and see
what it is hosting.

<http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Hidden_Backdoors_Trojan_Horses_and_Rootkit_Tools_in_a_Windows_Environment.html>

You can get Process Explorer at the link.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s...s/default.aspx

You go to menu View/Show all DLL(s)/Lower Pane and it will show
everything a svchost.exe is hosting. You can right click a line in the
upper or lower pane and go to Properties to get more information on what
is happening with a given process or where it is located.

It may not be malware, but with Process Explorer, you should be able to
pin point what given svchost.exe is hosting that sucking-up the resources.

There can be many Svchost.exe(s) running but what is using any given one
of them.

You can use CurrPort instead of Active Ports, which runs on Vista.

AV(s) can miss an exploit running on the machine.

"Ken" <kenmendell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OGChUERmJHA.4912@xxxxxxYou don't happen to have an HP Photosmart printer? I have discovered that
the drivers for my HP PhotoSmart printer cause svchost to consume an entire
CPU core. Maybe one of these days HP will learn how to write a printer
driver for Windows (multiple HP Printers - love the hardware, always have
had problems with the drivers).

Mike

Yes, I've thought about indexing, but it seems inactive when the svchost.exe
is running at full capacity. That was one of the first things I thought of,
too, because it seems logical. If it isn't, then what other programs could I
have that could set it off? Would web browser use do this, do you think?
There are multiple svchost.exe files running when they do this, often 3 or
more running to 50megs to 80megs or more!!


"Peter Foldes" <okf122@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use a Compaq tower, which is HP. It seems everything, the software, that
came with it is HP!! Could that be it!!??!! How would I handle this? And
thank you for telling me.


"Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think I answered this in the other group I posted this in. Thank you,
anyway. You've been very helpful.


"Jack the Ripper" <Jack@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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