Question about svchost.exe

[Nancy]

When viewing processes in the Windows Task Manager I
noticed that there were four instances of svchost.

I know that it is needed, but four of them!?

I'm using Windows XP Home Ed.
No network and I am the only user of the computer.
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I also wanted to ask about the nfts file system as apposed
to FAT 32.....
If a person were to do a clean install of Win XP and
formatting a huge capacity hard drive, so that there would
never be a worry of running low on disk space, the only
user of the computer and not on a network... would FAT 32
be a better choice?

Thanks.
Nancy

 

[Arjun]

Hi Nancy,
Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
http://mvps.org/sramesh2k/svchost.htm

HTH
Arjun

 

[Bill]

Svchost.exe is actually a combination of one or more services that are
running on your system. It is not uncommon to have 4 or 5 Svchost.exe
running. I have three. However these services are eating up your memory.
There are some services that can be disabled or set to manual. For more info
check out Black Vipers website.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm . Be forewarned dont go too
crazy with this stuff. And only disable/manual one or two at a time.
Bill

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's perfectly normal to have several instances of Svchost.exe
running simultaneously.

A Description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314056


Bruce Chambers
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[Alex Nichol]

When viewing processes in the Windows Task Manager I
noticed that there were four instances of svchost.

I know that it is needed, but four of them!?

That is normal. SVChost hosts a whole slew of services - that get
started up in batches at various stages. Each batch gets its own
svchost. Most of the space it appears to take is the service modules
themselves - svchost.exe is only 50K