SVCHOST.EXE

[Doug]

PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk top
it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work on
the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and runs
fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem to
do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit to
4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he lost
all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
him?

 

[MGGP]

Have you tried using MSCONFIG and turning off everything
on the Startup tab to see if that makes a difference ?
http://netsquirrel.com/msconfig/ <-tutorial

More info here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
Courtesy of Jupiter Jones

Good Luck

 

[Doug]

Yes, turned everything off. Still acts the same. I can
end the process of the svchost.exe and things work in the
task bar, but nothing in the desktop....thanks for the
reply back.

 

[Guest]

Fid out what process is causing the problem.
From command prompt, type tasklist /svc
All the processes associated with svchost will be displayed.

 

[Bob Weber]

My Windows XP home can't find tasklist cmd. Where is it?

Bob

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Windows XP Home does not have tasklist.exe. Download Tasklist.exe from:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/svchost.htm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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