svchost.exe hogging my CPU

[Duane Arnold]

Yes, I'm learning how to use it. Take a look at Security Task Manager
(Google it). You might find it does even more than PE. Let me know what
you think.

I looked at it.

No, it doesn't do more than PE. Although you can use PE to track down
malware, PE is a programmer's tool and has more features to go behind
the scene to see what is happening with a program.

I have used PE to look a ASP.NET application on a Web Server to debug
ASP.NET applications and threading issues.

Duane

 

[Peter Seiler]

David H. Lipman - 30.08.2006 02:53 :

From: "-Nisko-" <[email protected]>


| I'm trying - but I don't understand either of the misdemeanors you just
| mentioned.
|

That's OK....
That's all peter does understand !

{ Just kidding Peter }

David, THX for your friendly jump-in. See my reponse to Nisco. You
yourself perhaps understand something of AV. But perhaps only a
few/nothing(?) of other things? But I never run you down as you do.

Have a nice week.

 

[Peter Seiler]

-Nisko- - 30.08.2006 01:41 :

[...]

I'm trying - but I don't understand either of the misdemeanors you just
mentioned.

Nisko, perhaps the rest of my School-English is not the best. So,
excuse, English is not my first language. Another try:

As you can see above, you always even quote the sig delimiter and
siglines of the preposter again. Your NewsClient should cut these
sigdelimiter an the following siglines when you respond to any posting
with a true sigdelimiter and following siglines.

And to David also: Do you understand now what I meant? And
avoiding/snipping/cutting long fullquotings absolutely is a good usenet
behavior. I can't see any relation that these 2 arguments have anything
to do with "kidding". Additional, with 65 and ~ 10 years
internet-/usenet-experiencies, I'm not a target to be marked to be
"kiddish". I did only a friendly recommendation.

 

[-Nisko-]

-Nisko- - 30.08.2006 01:41 :

[...]

I'm trying - but I don't understand either of the misdemeanors you just
mentioned.

Nisko, perhaps the rest of my School-English is not the best. So,
excuse, English is not my first language. Another try:

As you can see above, you always even quote the sig delimiter and
siglines of the preposter again. Your NewsClient should cut these
sigdelimiter an the following siglines when you respond to any posting
with a true sigdelimiter and following siglines.

And to David also: Do you understand now what I meant? And
avoiding/snipping/cutting long fullquotings absolutely is a good usenet
behavior. I can't see any relation that these 2 arguments have anything
to do with "kidding". Additional, with 65 and ~ 10 years
internet-/usenet-experiencies, I'm not a target to be marked to be
"kiddish". I did only a friendly recommendation.

--

by(e) PS

spam will be killed

Sorry, Peter - but I still don't understand. My NewsClient is Outlook
Express. The only thing I am doing is responding to posts at the bottom of
the post.

 

[Befunge Sudoku]

Sorry, Peter - but I still don't understand. My NewsClient is Outlook
Express. The only thing I am doing is responding to posts at the bottom of
the post.

Outlook Express doesn't bother with little things like international
standards, and so it's hard to use it and not break societal norms,
leading to much angst, schadenfreude, and even possibly weltschmertz
[sp?].

If you Google for OE Quotefix, and install it, it improves things
somewhat. You'd be even better off with something like Gravity or
Agent, though.

 

[-Nisko-]

Long time ago, I had FreeAgent. Is that what you're recommending? Or the
paid version of Agent? Which is best: Agent, FreeAgent or Gravity? I'd
like to use the best and I don't want to keep changing software. Thank
you.......

Sorry, Peter - but I still don't understand. My NewsClient is Outlook
Express. The only thing I am doing is responding to posts at the bottom
of
the post.

Outlook Express doesn't bother with little things like international
standards, and so it's hard to use it and not break societal norms,
leading to much angst, schadenfreude, and even possibly weltschmertz
[sp?].

If you Google for OE Quotefix, and install it, it improves things
somewhat. You'd be even better off with something like Gravity or
Agent, though.

 

[Befunge Sudoku]

Long time ago, I had FreeAgent. Is that what you're recommending? Or the
paid version of Agent? Which is best: Agent, FreeAgent or Gravity? I'd
like to use the best and I don't want to keep changing software. Thank
you.......

I happen to like Gravity. Others will have their own preferences.
I don't think there can be just one that's "best"

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

and even possibly weltschmertz
[sp?].

The latter 't' was one too many. And I wonder, why you are mentioning
this term, as it is a kind of culturally inspired feeling of depression.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Befunge Sudoku]

and even possibly weltschmertz
[sp?].

The latter 't' was one too many. And I wonder, why you are mentioning
this term, as it is a kind of culturally inspired feeling of depression.

I get it when I contemplate another year's intake of undergraduates
with shiney new laptops with no security on them... Among other
causes. It's September RealSoonNow, AGAIN. Of course, it always is,
somewhere on the net.

 

[kurt wismer]

-Nisko- wrote:
[snip]

Sorry, Peter - but I still don't understand. My NewsClient is Outlook
Express. The only thing I am doing is responding to posts at the bottom of
the post.

ok, peter's 2 pet peves here are these:
1) you're full quoting instead of trimming your quotes to include only
that information relevant to your reply...
2) you're full quotes are so full that they also include the signature
of the person your quoting (the part that comes after the "--")... this
isn't seen much anymore because most modern news clients automatically
discard the signature when inserting the quote...

both of these things waste bandwidth and though that may not be a big
deal to some of us, others have to pay essentially by the kilobyte so
leaving extraneous text in your quotes is costing them
unnecessarily...try to trim as much as possible while still maintaining
the context necessary for your reply... also try to make your trimming
obvious (ie. use something similar to [snip] to indicate where you've
removed text)...

 

[-Nisko-]

Ok - and thanks - I get it now. Going to try Agent as a Newsreader.

 

[-Nisko-]

I can't. That was over a year ago. My ability to explain it would fall
short of my ability
to demonstrate it.

I think I now understand what I have to do with PE to find the root cause of
svchost using so much of my CPU. When I have the problem, I should open PE
and hover the cursor over the instance of svchost.exe that has the high
usage. Doing this opens a popup (light yellow) window that shows all the
Services tied to it. All I need to know now is how to see the CPU usage
associated with each Service - and I've found my culprit. Assuming that
Service is on Automatic, I can then set it to Manual or Disable depending on
whether I need it or not.

1. Can you instruct me on how to see the CPU usage for each Service?

2. Next to each Service is a short definition and it tells what happens if
you disable it. Is there another place I can go to get a better 'layman's'
description of each Service?

3. If I set a Service to Manual, and a needed Service tries to start, does
a window pop up asking the user if he wants to start it?

Thanks..........

 

[David H. Lipman]

| David, THX for your friendly jump-in. See my reponse to Nisco. You
| yourself perhaps understand something of AV. But perhaps only a
| few/nothing(?) of other things? But I never run you down as you do.
|
| Have a nice week.
|

It was a joke Peter -- just a joke !

 

[thecreator]

Hi Nisko,

Not disable them change the Startup Type from Disabled to Manual or Automatic.

Like for example if you had SSDP Discovery Service Disabled at Startup, change it to Manual, first, then click Start while viewing Properties. and Task Manager opened.

 

[Peter Seiler]

David H. Lipman - 31.08.2006 00:57 :

| David, THX for your friendly jump-in. See my reponse to Nisco. You
| yourself perhaps understand something of AV. But perhaps only a
| few/nothing(?) of other things? But I never run you down as you do.
|
| Have a nice week.
|

It was a joke Peter -- just a joke !

Dave, I'm not shure! Otherwise your remarks "That's all peter does
understand !" and "{ Just kidding Peter }" should have ";-)" or
somethingelse to make it clear.

BTW: Have a look at Kurt Wismers response of 30.08. to Nisko. It's
exactly what I meant but much better explained. THX to Kurt.

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

though that may not be a big
deal to some of us, others have to pay essentially by the kilobyte so
leaving extraneous text in your quotes

This is an OT reply, but

before you think, these times are over, think of the new generation
cellular phones that can be used for web browsing without any vomputer,
whose services are still paid by the minute or data amount, so Kurts
point is quite viable.

See how I set my reply up, use the same scheme, and you should be done.
BTW: The "information" text in my signature gives it a special meaning,
doens't it?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Peter Seiler" <[email protected]>


| Dave, I'm not shure! Otherwise your remarks "That's all peter does
| understand !" and "{ Just kidding Peter }" should have ";-)" or
| somethingelse to make it clear.
|
| BTW: Have a look at Kurt Wismers response of 30.08. to Nisko. It's
| exactly what I meant but much better explained. THX to Kurt.
|

Peter:

I didn't use an emoticon simply because I EXPLICITLY stated "{ Just kidding Peter }".

Lighten up -- OK ?

 

[-Nisko-]

This is what I would do. It won't cost you a thing. Go to start\run. Type

in services.msc. Find the service called Automatic Updates. Change the
setting to disabled. Aplly setting. Now stop the service. Reboot the
computer and see if this fixes your problem. If it does, report back and
I'll explain what you need to do to update Windows for services patches,
etc.

OK, I did this and restarted. Runs OK now - but the proof that the problem
is fixed will be over time. What do I have to do to update Windows for
Service patches in the meantime? Thank you.........

 

[-Nisko-]

You're exactly right; the proof in the fix will be determined over time.
To engage M/S Update, you'll need to go into services, double click the
Automatic Updates service, set it to automatic, apply, then start the
service. Now, you'll be able to manually update by going to the Windows
Update page. After you've run update, reverse the process.

In case you're wondering, I've applied this fix to numerous laptops with
the problem you have experienced (including mine). The problem appears to
be a result of a recent update to the Windows Update service, but
manifests itself primarily on laptops manufactured by Dell and HP. Don't
know why. I'm sure someone else is paid to know that.

Well, Automatic Updates is Disabled and I just rebooted - same problem. I
know some Service is trying to start over and over again and is using up my
CPU. I just can't figure out what it is. My only other recourse that I can
see is to set all my Automatic Services to Manual - one at a time - until
they are all Manual or I find the culprit.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "optikl" <[email protected]>


| Rather than piss around with trying to figure out why you're having the
| problems you are, you may wish to consider backing up your data and
| flatten and rebuild your system.

It may be prudent at this time !