Managing Processes

[Cindy Mikeworth]

I have recently been experiencing performance issues. When I check the
processes in Task Manager, I see that there are system and svchost.exe
processes consuming more than 75% of my resources, even though I have no
applications running, and have shut down almost everything in my task bar.

How can I go about troubleshooting this challenge?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I have recently been experiencing performance issues. When I check the
processes in Task Manager, I see that there are system and svchost.exe
processes consuming more than 75% of my resources, even though I have no
applications running, and have shut down almost everything in my task bar.

How can I go about troubleshooting this challenge?

Svchost.exe only host other processes. It does nothing on its own. So, look
at what other processes any Svchost.exe is hosting.

The tools in the link such a Process Explorer will help you look. Also use
Currports (free) instead of Active Ports, because Active Ports doesn't run
on Vista.

<http://www.windowsecurity.com/artic...d_Rootkit_Tools_in_a_Windows_Environment.html>

You can right-click a line in PE and go to Properties to get more
information.

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

 

[Ringmaster]

I have recently been experiencing performance issues. When I check the
processes in Task Manager, I see that there are system and svchost.exe
processes consuming more than 75% of my resources, even though I have no
applications running, and have shut down almost everything in my task bar.

How can I go about troubleshooting this challenge?

Open Task Manager's Resource Monitor and see what's cooking under the
Performance tab. The two areas to focus on would be Disk and Memory
usage. Expand the little arrow at the far right to get details and
just sit back and watch for a few minutes. The columns are clickable.
So clicking on Average CPU should show what going on with the CPU at
the top of the column while Image should show what's happening with
disk activity.