machine. Its svchost, a generic file which is draining
all cpu and memory available ,almost and causes the
shutdown. Although I've found how to put it right and I
can't see a way of not costing. If you have since you
SVChost is an essential component of the system that provides the
interface to a whole slew of services - and the system will not run
without some of them. You have to identify *which* of the services it
is that has run away. It may well be an intrusive piece of spyware -
run Adaware from
www.lavasoftusa.com to track down and remove these
things.
You can go to Control Panel - Admin tools - services, and with Task
Manager running to show effects, cautiously select and Stop services
that show as 'Started'. Check on what each does to make sure it does
not look critical, and if there is no effect, start it again
If you identify one, double click on it and set Startup type to Manual
rather than Disabled in the first instance. Ones you can reasonably
safely Stop 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 have
no CD writer)
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)
