Richie said:
I am looking at the memory usage of my system and see
that svchost.exe is listed (7) times, all active as a
running process, can this list be cut to improve
performance?
No. SVCHost is merely a service program, used to load and provide
communication to a whole slew of services on behalf of the system. They
get loaded in batches at different stages, hence the multiple instances.
- things like third party fiirewalls and resident AV often have a
service loaded just for them, giving extra instances.
All you can do is turn off selected services that are not needed by
you; but it will make little difference to performance apart from a
modest memory use. Here all the instances of svchost put together show
only 2 mins CPU in the past 24 hours. Unless some malware has tried
getting in on the act, in which case one instance will probably show a
noticeable CPU use and probably steadily increasing memory use. If you
see that run up to date anti-spyware programs.
