My Svchost File GOES INSANE ON STARTUP HELP!!

[Carmine782]

Hello, I have a Sony Viao Laptop with 1GB of ram i have all auto
updates installed and i have nortan internet security on my computer,
but when i start my computer my svchost file in the task manager is
near 100 precent of cpu and 100MB on memory for like 5-10 minutes after
statup then it goes down.

Any Ideas?

Carmine

 

[Michael T.]

Hello, I have a Sony Viao Laptop with 1GB of ram i have all auto
updates installed and i have Norton internet security on my computer,
but when I start my computer my svchost file in the task manager is
near 100 percent of cpu and 100MB on memory for like 5-10 minutes after
startup then it goes down.

Any Ideas?

Carmine

Courtesy of Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
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Svchost is merely the program used to load a whole slew of services, each
instance running several, and one has to find out which is the one causing
the heavy load. It is not much help to look for which ones are running, as
there is nothing to show the cpu use for individual services.

What you can do is go to Control Panel - Admin tools - Services, look down
for possible candidate that are 'Started' and try (in the left panel) a Stop
to see the effect. If either the CPU usage continues or something stops
working, put that service back. When you have found a likely cause, double
click, set Startup type to Manual for the moment. If such a service then
does start on a later occasion, it is because
something is needing it.

You can probably do without the following unless you are on a network:
'Background Intelligent Transfer' and 'Routing and Remote Access' are two
that seem to have been implicated in heavy CPU use in the past

Alerter
Background Intelligent Transfer
Indexing Service (unless you want all Office documents indexed for faster
searches on basis of contents)
Messenger (this is *not* the Instant Messaging program)
Performance Logs
QoS RSVP
Routing and Remote Access
and unless you go through a router that supports Net address
translation
(NAT) the pair
SSDP Discovery
Universal Plug and play

Anything else that could usefully be set as Manual probably is already
anyway.
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[JS]

From Ramesh's web site: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/svchost.htm
Also: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

To find out more about Svchost.exe entries try Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
Pane's options.
(This will provide the detailed info you need)
Next click/Expand the Svchost.exe process that you are interest in.
Then highlight one of the process listed under Svchost, right click and from
the options listed select: google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

JS

 

[thecreator]

Hi Carmine,

Go into Services and check to make sure that no Services are disabled
that depends on Svchost. Probably trying to start a disabled Service, and
dies or stops trying after 10 minutes.

Also do computer maintenance. Manual clean out your \Temp Folders, then
run Disk Cleanup.

Schedule a complete Chkdsk for your operating system's Hard Drive.
Reboot and let it run.

Defragment your Hard Drive.

 

[tiagoclaus]

Apparently this problem came up last month is spreading around, but I
have the solution for you.

If the thread of svchost that is hagging is
"ntdll.dll!RtlAllocateHeap+0x18c", then there is a 99.99% chance that
it is related with Microsoft Update and Windows Update. (to check
whether or not this is the problematic thread, use Process Explorer,
select the svhost process and goes to properties->threads.)

Yes, there are differents updates from Microsoft and the recent one,
Microsoft Update, takes over the CPU computer when you start Windows,
just like you described. I don´t know in which circumstances that
occurs, but I had the same problem "out of nowhere".

To correct that, you have to go to Windows Update
(http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/) and in the CHANGE SETTINGS
options check the option to "disable Microsoft update". End of your
problems!

You can leave your Windows in automatic update, but it will only update
windows, no more Microsoft products.

Regards,
Tiago