100% Processor usage - svchost.exe

[Guest]

My machine runs with 100% processor used up by svchost.exe

I have read other posts suggesting to disable Windows Update, but having
done this, I still have the problem.

Any ideas? The problem seems to have occurred after a recent update.

 

[Brian@rogan]

I am also looking for a solution to this problem. Using sysinternals process
explorer, the svchost process that is eating up so much cpu (more than 50%
on my AMD X2-3800+)is responsible for these processes:

DHCP Client
Security Center
TCP/IP Netbios Helper
Windows Audio
Windows Event Log

Disabling these services did not stop the cpu hunger. Until I find a fix, on
each reboot, I set the priority of this svchost process to the lowest so it
doesnt affect me so much...

This did seem to start after a windows update a week or two ago..

Brian

 

[Hank]

I believe some of this has been relieved in the 5456 version. I'm not an
official tester so I can't get my hands on it (wish I could though!)

 

[James]

I had the exact same problem as this and I found that after waiting (leave
the computer running for say an hour or so) then restarted my PC it was
fine.