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I have a new Centrino Duo 2.0 x64 processor, 2 GB RAM, Vista Ultimate
laptop.

This has been one of my slowest machines. Not by the specs, but by the
performance. In the past, as a semi-developer, I've had SQL Server, DB2
Server, MQ Series Server, and an number of other services running. On this
new laptop I have none of these services running. However, my CPU runs at
100% on a very regular basis. The only thing I can see when viewing the
process monitor is svchost.exe running.

I know this service is probably related to several services that are
running, but I'd love to find the detail so that I can find the specific
service that causing my CPU to run at 100%. I can hardly browse my e-mail in
outlook because the CPU is taken.

mb
 
Mike Benton said:
I have a new Centrino Duo 2.0 x64 processor, 2 GB RAM, Vista Ultimate
laptop.

This has been one of my slowest machines. Not by the specs, but by the
performance. In the past, as a semi-developer, I've had SQL Server, DB2
Server, MQ Series Server, and an number of other services running. On this
new laptop I have none of these services running. However, my CPU runs at
100% on a very regular basis. The only thing I can see when viewing the
process monitor is svchost.exe running.

I know this service is probably related to several services that are
running, but I'd love to find the detail so that I can find the specific
service that causing my CPU to run at 100%. I can hardly browse my e-mail
in outlook because the CPU is taken.
Click to expand...

Try taskmgr or
Administrative tools/reliability and performance monitor
click on CPU bar which then expands to show all
CPU using tasks/images.
click on Average cpu to sort into order.
 
Mike said:
I have a new Centrino Duo 2.0 x64 processor, 2 GB RAM, Vista Ultimate
laptop.

This has been one of my slowest machines. Not by the specs, but by the
performance. In the past, as a semi-developer, I've had SQL Server,
DB2 Server, MQ Series Server, and an number of other services
running. On this new laptop I have none of these services running.
However, my CPU runs at 100% on a very regular basis. The only thing
I can see when viewing the process monitor is svchost.exe running.

I know this service is probably related to several services that are
running, but I'd love to find the detail so that I can find the
specific service that causing my CPU to run at 100%. I can hardly
browse my e-mail in outlook because the CPU is taken.

mb
Click to expand...

Does it happen in Safe Mode? If not, boot to Safe Mode and see if you can
run a virus scan from there and check for malware, noting except System Idle
Process should be running consistantly at the figure you post. For the most
part, they will make a brief jump only to return to zero.

If your system is clear of viruses and malware, I'd check the Event Viewer
under Administrative Tools to see if there are any red warnings under any of
the tabs.

Indexing can cause a lot of disk activity but it sure as heck shouldn't
cause the system to run at 100% cpu or even close and certainly not
consistantly.

This being a new system, if you can't find anything and you've installed
very little on the system, I'd consider taking it back as there is simply no
way this should be happening.
 
Just half assed fixed this one last night for a person. Turn off automatic
updates to get your cpu back. After this, go to windows update site and
install all the updates it offers.Once rebooted and completely updated,
turn automatic updates back on and with any luck it wont max out your cpu
anymore. Please report back if this helps or not. Nice to see microsoft
carried this problem from XP into Vista.
 
I still haven't found a solution to this. Again, there is a process,
'svchost.exe' that runs my 2 processors at 100%. I had two replies which
tell me to use methods I've already used. It was using these methods I was
able to tell which process was causing the problem.

The problem is that there is not enough detail to pinpoint which service is
causing the problem. It seems killing the 'svchost.exe' process works for
about 2 minutes, then it automatically starts again. What a Microsoft
Nightmare!!!!

Mike
 
Some of the functionality is now included in Windows Task Manager. If
you right click on the svchost.exe in the Processes tab, and select "Go
to Service(s)", it opens the Services tab with the services running
under that process highlighted.

It also works in reverse - you can right click a service and select "Go
to Process".
 
Cool Im glad you found what was causing your issue. A question I have is
what solution did you come up with to turn it off or stop it from maxing out
your cpu's?
 
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