hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running google,
left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and it
said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if you
have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was occurring,
I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this related
to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks

It is perfectly normal to have several svchost running at the same time.
Several processes depend on it, hence the reason for several instances. I
have 6 running as I write this.

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Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


"rosypee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6071A5A1-88C6-4C28-B1E6-(E-Mail Removed)...
| hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running google,
| left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and
it
| said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
| ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if
you
| have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was
occurring,
| I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this
related
| to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks

"Curt Christianson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> It is perfectly normal to have several svchost running at the same time.
> Several processes depend on it, hence the reason for several instances. I
> have 6 running as I write this.
>
> --
> Curt
>
> http://dundats.mvps.org/
> http://www.aumha.org/
>
>
> "rosypee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6071A5A1-88C6-4C28-B1E6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> | hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running
> google,
> | left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and
> it
> | said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
> | ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if
> you
> | have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was
> occurring,
> | I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this
> related
> | to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks
>
>
It is better understood as having more than one process executing
svchost.exe. This is no more significant than if you had more than one
process executing notepad.exe.

If you look at the processes via Process Explorer, you will find that each
process is using svchost.exe to perform different tasks.

Jim

Thanks curt, thanks jim, thats helpful. And if I only had google running and
on login it said I had 3 programs running, thats normal too? I didn't have
anything else running. Thanks

"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Curt Christianson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > It is perfectly normal to have several svchost running at the same time.
> > Several processes depend on it, hence the reason for several instances. I
> > have 6 running as I write this.
> >
> > --
> > Curt
> >
> > http://dundats.mvps.org/
> > http://www.aumha.org/
> >
> >
> > "rosypee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:6071A5A1-88C6-4C28-B1E6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > | hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running
> > google,
> > | left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and
> > it
> > | said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
> > | ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if
> > you
> > | have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was
> > occurring,
> > | I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this
> > related
> > | to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks
> >
> >
> It is better understood as having more than one process executing
> svchost.exe. This is no more significant than if you had more than one
> process executing notepad.exe.
>
> If you look at the processes via Process Explorer, you will find that each
> process is using svchost.exe to perform different tasks.
>
> Jim
>
>
>

rosypee <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote on Wed, 21 Feb 2007:

>Thanks curt, thanks jim, thats helpful. And if I only had google running and
>on login it said I had 3 programs running, thats normal too? I didn't have
>anything else running.

Might there have been start-up programs running in the systray?
Antivirus or firewall perhaps?

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Nightowl