svchost.exe stealing cpu resources

[Daniel Lidstrom]

Hi,

what is causing svchost.exe (LOCAL_SERVICE) to steal my cpu resources? I
want to run a program at 100% cpu but svchost.exe keeps running and
running and... I do not want to change process priority of my other
program, it should be fine with below-normal priority because I think
svchost.exe should not be doing this. What is causing it, and what can I
do about it?

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Daniel
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

 

[Daniel Lidstrom]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:17:30 -0400, Phil (purplehaz) wrote:

[top-post corrected]

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

I do not have virii.

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Daniel
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:17:30 -0400, Phil (purplehaz) wrote:

[top-post corrected]

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

I do not have virii.

Is it a current version(2002 or newer) and is it updated? I ask this because
several viruses hide themselves as svchost or similiar.
See if these help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314056
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

 

[kurttrail]

Of course you don't, since there is no such thing as "virii." The
plural of "virus" is "viruses."

By the way, I'm top-posting just to piss you off.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:17:30 -0400, Phil (purplehaz) wrote:

[top-post corrected]

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

I do not have virii.

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[Daniel Lidstrom]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:17:30 -0400, Phil (purplehaz) wrote:

[top-post corrected]

Daniel Lidstrom wrote:
Hi,

what is causing svchost.exe (LOCAL_SERVICE) to steal my cpu
resources? I want to run a program at 100% cpu but svchost.exe keeps
running and running and... I do not want to change process priority
of my other program, it should be fine with below-normal priority
because I think svchost.exe should not be doing this. What is
causing it, and what can I do about it?

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

I do not have virii.

Is it a current version(2002 or newer) and is it updated? I ask this because
several viruses hide themselves as svchost or similiar.
See if these help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314056
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Thank you for your help, I'll try those two tools.

--
Daniel
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:17:30 -0400, Phil (purplehaz) wrote:

[top-post corrected]

Daniel Lidstrom wrote:
Hi,

what is causing svchost.exe (LOCAL_SERVICE) to steal my cpu
resources? I want to run a program at 100% cpu but svchost.exe
keeps running and running and... I do not want to change process
priority of my other program, it should be fine with below-normal
priority because I think svchost.exe should not be doing this.
What is causing it, and what can I do about it?

Do a virus scan with updated anti-virus program.

I do not have virii.

Is it a current version(2002 or newer) and is it updated? I ask this
because several viruses hide themselves as svchost or similiar.
See if these help:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314056
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a
home page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Thank you for your help, I'll try those two tools.

You're welcome.

 

[Alex Nichol]

what is causing svchost.exe (LOCAL_SERVICE) to steal my cpu resources? I
want to run a program at 100% cpu but svchost.exe keeps running and
running and...

At Control Panel - Admin Tools - Services selectively stop likely
services to see which one is causing the load (start them again if
stopping has no effect). The likely candidates are

Background Intelligent Transfer (needed by Automatic Updates, but you
can do manual ones with it off)

Routing and Remote access - which you probably would not miss
or the pair
SSDP Discovery service and
Universal Plug and Play
- if you stop one, stop booth. Those are only important if you use a
router that needs UPnP to handle Net Address Translation