SVCHost and CPU usage

[Bob Davis]

I'm helping a friend diagose an odd problem on his rather old AMD system
running XP with current updates. At times, usually a minute or two after
booting the computer, something kicks in and takes up ~95% of the CPU and is
shown as SVCHost in Taskmgr. This will tie up the CPU for up to four
minutes at a time, rendering his box literally useless.

I suspected it was indexing or some other service, so I set up services like
I have on my box, which doesn't have the problem. However, the issue
continued. Is there a way to find out what SVCHost is doing when it
undertakes this activity?

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[Nepatsfan]

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I'm helping a friend diagose an odd problem on his rather old
AMD
system running XP with current updates. At times, usually a
minute
or two after booting the computer, something kicks in and
takes up
~95% of the CPU and is shown as SVCHost in Taskmgr. This
will tie up
the CPU for up to four minutes at a time, rendering his box
literally
useless.
I suspected it was indexing or some other service, so I set
up
services like I have on my box, which doesn't have the
problem. However, the issue continued. Is there a way to
find out what
SVCHost is doing when it undertakes this activity?

Download and run this program from Microsoft.

Process Explorer for Windows v10.21
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/noautologon.htm

If you find that the problem instance of svchost is running the
wuauserv service, you might want try the following;

Go to Microsoft Update and click Change Settings in the left
hand column.
In the right hand pane, scroll down to the bottom and put a
check mark in the box next to "Disable Microsoft Update
software and let me use Windows Update only". Hit the Apply
changes now button.

Keep in mind that if you disable Microsoft Update, your friend
will have to go to the Office web site to obtain updates for
those programs.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Bob Davis]

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Download and run this program from Microsoft.

Process Explorer for Windows v10.21
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/noautologon.htm

If you find that the problem instance of svchost is running the wuauserv
service, you might want try the following;

Go to Microsoft Update and click Change Settings in the left hand column.
In the right hand pane, scroll down to the bottom and put a check mark in
the box next to "Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use Windows
Update only". Hit the Apply changes now button.

Keep in mind that if you disable Microsoft Update, your friend will have
to go to the Office web site to obtain updates for those programs.

I downloaded it and have emailed him the file. Will report back when I get
more info. Thanks.