Jen said:
Lately my PC has been slowed down greatly after 5 or so minutes after start
up by what appears to be a process called svchost.exe, which is taking up
almost 100% of my CPU making everything else nearly impossible to do. I
downloaded the Process Explorer to find out which one it was and it's this
one:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Sometimes after many reboots it stops doing this, or if I sometimes even
kill the process, but this has become very frustrating. Any and all help is
appreciated.
Please not that you will have to tell me step by step what to do, since I'm
not as computer savvy as some of you tech support people.
The svchost.exe is a security process and can be used by many running
services, also you can experiencing a memory leak.
Process located here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe size: 14336
You receive an access violation error and the system may appear to become
unresponsive when you try to install an update from Windows Update or from
Microsoft Update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
Use this tool to see what taken the most usage of the CPU on your machine.
ShellExView v1.19 - Shell Extensions Manager
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Go through these cleaning steps:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .
Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your
browser, On how to disable the Add-ons follow this:
Click on Programs Tab and then click the Manage Add-Ons Button there Disable
the None/Not Verified Plug-ins/Add-ons ( you need to Renable them one-by-one
later and see which is the culprit .
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
SuperAntispyware - Free
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-gb/default.htm?s_cid=sah
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-gb/default.htm
How to speed your PC:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm
Run disk clean up and then run this command:
sfc /scannow
Open a run command and type in:
services.msc click [OK] and stop these services:
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer service
Reboot your machine, does it still unresponsive?
How To: troubleshoot svchost.exe
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/ar...started-with-svchost-exe-troubleshooting.aspx
FIX: When you run Windows Update to scan for updates that use Windows
Installer, including Office updates, you may experience a memory leak, or you
may receive an error message for the Svchost process
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916089
You receive an access violation error and the system may appear to become
unresponsive when you try to install an update from Windows Update or from
Microsoft Update
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927891
HTH.
nass
