Kill the SVCHOST Fallacies

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Danny

Hello, All

Aside from being the easy way out, I reluctantly kill one of the
svchosts (using its PID) eating up most of the machine's memory, and
then restart it from the Services panel. Aside from having to restart
some services, can this cause irreparable damage (or reparable) to
software or hardware?

Scouring articles, blogs, and boards provides conflicting arguments
and outlandish claims; so, I figured I'd create a central location for
the conflicting arguments and outlandish claims; hopefully a
conclusion will be arrived at.

My question remains "Aside from having to restart some services, can
killing then restarting or restarting one svchost cause irreparable
(or reparable) damage to software (OS or other) or hardware?

I look forward to the responses.

Thanks
 
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