svchost.exe taking 30mb memory?

[Guest]

hi i am looking at my task manager processes and going through them 1 by 1 to
eliminate the things i dont need. i have noticed a svchost.exe taking over
30000 kb memory and wondered if that is normal? i tried googleing it but no
avail. i also have about 6 svchost.exe 's running. what do they exactly do
and can i stop these? thank you, matt320

 

[Guest]

Hi,

SVCHOST is a group of services. That can be essential or harmful to the
computer. In order to find the services runnign under an SVCHOST, u need
certain commands.
recommends a full system san. Refer:

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/svchost.exe.html

Rgds,

Arun Aluvila

 

[Gerry]

Matt

You need to identify which application is generating excessive use
of svchost.exe.

Download Process Explorer.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

To ascertain which service is causing the problem select the svchost
producing the high CPU usage, right click, select Properties,
Services. Note there are the full names and some explanation of what
each service does.

You will find further information on Services here:
http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

To trace the particular Service involved you need to turn off each
service in turn and then restore it noting what effect it has on CPU
usage. However, you need to take care and watch what other Services
are dependent on that service. When you click on the Dependencies
tab allow it a little time to display the information.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[MowGreen [MVP]]

Perhaps it's this, Matt:

When you use Automatic Updates to scan for updates or to apply updates
to applications that use Windows Installer, you experience issues that
involve the Svchost.exe process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932494

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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