SVCHOST

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when I go to Windows Task Manager, I notice a program
named "CVSHOST.EXE" using about 30MB of memory.

What is CVSHOST?
Do I need it, or should I disable it? if so how?
Is 30MB reasonable or too high? if so, how to lower that?

Thanks!
 
Thank you, it's SVCHOST and I read the article in
Microsoft site.
I guess nothing much i can do about it then.
 
but how can i disable them?
i went to Run then CMD then typed tasklist /svc and go
the list, ... now how to remove them or find out more
about what are those?

Thanks
-----Original Message-----
Yes. You may disable unwanted services. Tasklist /svc
gives you the list of services launched by each SVCHost
process.
 
TR said:
but how can i disable them?
i went to Run then CMD then typed tasklist /svc and go
the list, ... now how to remove them or find out more
about what are those?

SVCHost supports a whole sleaw of services that windows uses, and it is
common to see them (under the svchost blanket) adding up to 30 MB or so.
They also get loaded in groups - with maybe 4 or 5 instances of Svchost,
one for each.

So normally leave things alone.

You can disable sevices at Control Panel - Admin tools - Services, where
you can double click a line and set startup type to either Disabled, or
safer to Manual (then if it is really needed it will get started. Don't
bother with lines that do not say 'Started' on them. And be careful - I
would stop the service, make sure nothing drastic happens first.

Ones that can probably be set to Manual on a stand alone
machine (or probably non-corporate LAN ) are

Background Intelligent transfer (though it is used by Auto Update,
manual update works fine without)
Routing and remote access
Both of which seem implicated in heavy usage of CPU

SSDP Discovery and
U PnP
provided you don't need it for a UPnP router

Alerter (which is *not* needed for error alerts on the local machine)

Indexing (unless the use of context in searches is an actual benefit)

IMAPI CD Burning (if third party CD burning is implemented or you don't
have a burner)

Messenger (against the pop-up ads, though of course NetBIOS should be
blocked in a firewall, this is better than nothing - and is doing no
good in the sort of setups mentioned)

QoS RSVP (not that it causes the trouble that street wisdom suggests -
but it doesn't do anything positive)

Anythng else that is running is probably needed,
 
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