svchost running at 100%

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Hi,


i recently reinstalled windows home xp back on to my sony viao.
xp was running perfect before reinstall, i did it merely to format my drive.

about a minute after i boot, my system kicks svchost.exe kicks to 100%
it drains all performance and cannot excute any other program.

i attempted to reinstall using XP pro, and another home disk. BOTH
formated (not quick), still no avail. i also refered to a discusson
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&tid=2e2533fe-495e-442c-af43-a79f780a4336&p=1

i followed these steps, and still no avail. it kicks back in when i
try to update windows.

thanks!
~jonathan
 
jonathan.quinonez said:
Hi,


i recently reinstalled windows home xp back on to my sony viao.
xp was running perfect before reinstall, i did it merely to format my drive.
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That was a poor choice. Rreinstalls should only be done under the
most extreme circustances such as when the system has become totally
unusable and the repair possibilities have all been exhausted.
about a minute after i boot, my system kicks svchost.exe kicks to 100%
it drains all performance and cannot excute any other program.
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Which instance of svchost is doing this? There are several of these.
If you look at the processes list in Task Manager you will see that
each process has a unique PID number assigned to it. That allows you
to distinguish the different instances of SVCHOST, among other things.

When you have identified the PID number for the problem instance of
SVCHOST then open a Command Prompt window (Start - Run - CMD).
In the Command Prompt window enter the following command:

TASKLIST /SVC

That will give you a list of all running services, the PID of each,
and the individual tasks that are running under that service.

Post the list of tasks that are running under the problem instance of
SVCHOST back here and we will help you to identify the probably
culprit.

Good luck



i attempted to reinstall using XP pro, and another home disk. BOTH
formated (not quick), still no avail. i also refered to a discusson :
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&tid=2e2533fe-495e-442c-af43-a79f780a4336&p=1

i followed these steps, and still no avail. it kicks back in when i
try to update windows.

thanks!
~jonathan
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Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
Ron said:
Which instance of svchost is doing this? There are several of these.
If you look at the processes list in Task Manager you will see that
each process has a unique PID number assigned to it. That allows you
to distinguish the different instances of SVCHOST, among other things.

When you have identified the PID number for the problem instance of
SVCHOST then open a Command Prompt window (Start - Run - CMD).
In the Command Prompt window enter the following command:

TASKLIST /SVC

That will give you a list of all running services, the PID of each,
and the individual tasks that are running under that service.

Post the list of tasks that are running under the problem instance of
SVCHOST back here and we will help you to identify the probably
culprit.
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Hi, Ron. That's interesting. I get:

'TASKLIST' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
program or batch file.

[Windows XP Home SP2]

"Autoruns" http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html gives me a
complete list of services which are supposed to be autorun from the
registry, including an explanation of which services are run under the
general heading, svchost.exe. Maybe that would help. I'm not sure how the
information can be posted to the newsgroup though.
 
| Ron Martell wrote:
|
| [...]
|
| >> about a minute after i boot, my system kicks svchost.exe kicks to 100%
| >> it drains all performance and cannot excute any other program.
| >
| > Which instance of svchost is doing this? There are several of these.
| > If you look at the processes list in Task Manager you will see that
| > each process has a unique PID number assigned to it. That allows you
| > to distinguish the different instances of SVCHOST, among other things.
| >
| > When you have identified the PID number for the problem instance of
| > SVCHOST then open a Command Prompt window (Start - Run - CMD).
| > In the Command Prompt window enter the following command:
| >
| > TASKLIST /SVC
| >
| > That will give you a list of all running services, the PID of each,
| > and the individual tasks that are running under that service.
| >
| > Post the list of tasks that are running under the problem instance of
| > SVCHOST back here and we will help you to identify the probably
| > culprit.
|
|
| Hi, Ron. That's interesting. I get:
|
| 'TASKLIST' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
| program or batch file.
|
| [Windows XP Home SP2]


That command will only run in XP Pro.

Get the XP Home version of the Tasklist function here: http://www.computerhope.com/download/winxp.htm

Operating System:Windows XP
Description:Windows XP Tasklist utility
Technical Notes:Enables Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional users to view complete information about the services running on their computer.
 
Here are the task's running, ill put asteriks to which one i believe is
causing the error.


C:\Documents and Settings\raymond\Desktop>tasklist /svc

Image Name PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================
System Idle Process 0 N/A
System 4 N/A
smss.exe 428 N/A
csrss.exe 476 N/A
winlogon.exe 500 N/A
services.exe 548 PlugPlay
lsass.exe 560 PolicyAgent, ProtectedStorage, SamSs
svchost.exe 712 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe 784 RpcSs
svchost.exe 916 Dnscache
svchost.exe 976 LmHosts, SSDPSRV, WebClient
spoolsv.exe 1028 Spooler
explorer.exe 1420 N/A
alg.exe 1916 ALG
wuauclt.exe 308 N/A
IEXPLORE.EXE 812 N/A
cmd.exe 1720 N/A
******svchost.exe 1308 CryptSvc, EventSystem, SENS, winmgmt,
wuauserv
wmiprvse.exe 1336 N/A
taskmgr.exe 984 N/A
IEXPLORE.EXE 1548 N/A
tasklist.exe 1660 N/A
 
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