svchost using near 100% CPU usage

[Guest]

My computer is screwing up badly. The task manager says svchost is using near
100 % of my CPU. The machine is sluggish. I've run McAfee antivirus and
adaware with no luck so far. The fan in my laptop is running constantly to
try to cool the machine. Please help!

 

[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 (there are usually more than one) 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

 

[Guest]

It looks like the advapi32.dll is the file that is hogging the CPU. Now what?

 

[JS]

In the upper pane there is a description column just to the right of CPU
history, what does is say about the Svchost process that is causing the
problem?

JS