svchost.exe

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Anthony

Hey when i load up my computer sometimes it loads fun but
other times it takes a looooong time. when i open up
task manager i see that svchost.exe is takign up a lot of
hte cpu memory. I tried running virus scan but nothing
came up... any ideas?
 
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Hey when i load up my computer sometimes it loads fun but
other times it takes a looooong time. when i open up
task manager i see that svchost.exe is takign up a lot of
hte cpu memory. I tried running virus scan but nothing
came up... any ideas?
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Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services
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that are run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). At
startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the
registry to construct a list of services that it needs to
load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe
running at the same time.
Therefore a corrupt .dll can be to blame ,are there
things that you changed over last little while?
 
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that are run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). At
startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the
registry to construct a list of services that it needs to
load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe
running at the same time.
Therefore a corrupt .dll can be to blame ,are there
things that you changed over last little while?
.
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The only thing i got rid of was all the garbage ad stuff
with spy ware (which was a lot)... other than that i
haven't changed anything
 
It is normal to see multiple svchost.exe's.
teyong said:
I have five SVCHOST.EXE runing:
1) system (3)
2)local service
3)network service

while I have had problems with this system windows XP SP1 most I have
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cleaned up but ever now and then get a program that will not load or has to
quite or will not quite.
 
yes
Unknown said:
It is normal to see multiple svchost.exe's.

cleaned up but ever now and then get a program that will not load or has to
quite or will not quite.
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