svchost.exe

[Pink Sparkle Girl]

After starting-up my pc spends a lot of time and energy running svchost.exe,
making it very slow for a good few minutes. I know that viruses can disguise
themselves as svchost.exe, but I'm not sure that's what's going on here.

Any advise would be most appreciated as it is really getting on my nerves!

 

[JS]

From Ramesh's web site: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/svchost.htm
Also: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

To find out more about Svchost.exe entries try Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
Click/Expand the Svchost.exe process that you are interest in.
Then highlight one of the process listed under Svchost, right click and from
the options listed select: google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

JS

 

[Rich Barry]

Rt click Taskbar>select TaskManager>Processes. Make sure that all the
SVCHOST.EXE entries are spelled correctly.
If not then you have a virus. I have six entries in my Task Manager.
They all show 00 under CPU. That's normal.
Take a look here
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20867724.html

 

[thecreator]

HI Pink,

What is your CPU Processor Speed? How much memory is installed? What version of XP is running? 64-bit? SP Level?When was the last time you ran a full chkdsk at boot? Did you get the Updates / Hotfixes, yesterday or the day before?