svchost.exe, Microsoft at it's finest

[INTELCRAZY]

I need to do something about the svchost.exe process on my Dell PC. It is taking over the CPU, and making that thing run slow. Is there anyway to fix this?



Thanks

 

[madtownidiot]

I had the same problem and apparently its pretty common.
This will tell you how to fix it

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891/

 

[Cromewell]

Find out what is running in it and disable that service. You can do this by typing 'tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"' at the command prompt if you have XP Pro

Image Name                   PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================
svchost.exe                 1548 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe                 1628 RpcSs
svchost.exe                 1872 AudioSrv, BITS, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver,
                                 ERSvc, EventSystem, helpsvc, lanmanserver,
                                 lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan,
                                 Schedule, seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection,
                                 TapiSrv, Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt,
                                 wuauserv, WZCSVC
svchost.exe                 1916 Dnscache
svchost.exe                 2004 LmHosts, RemoteRegistry, SSDPSRV, WebClient

 

[INTELCRAZY]

Find out what is running in it and disable that service. You can do this by typing 'tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"' at the command prompt if you have XP Pro

Image Name                   PID Services
========================= ====== =============================================
svchost.exe                 1548 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe                 1628 RpcSs
svchost.exe                 1872 AudioSrv, BITS, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver,
                                 ERSvc, EventSystem, helpsvc, lanmanserver,
                                 lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan,
                                 Schedule, seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection,
                                 TapiSrv, Themes, TrkWks, W32Time, winmgmt,
                                 wuauserv, WZCSVC
svchost.exe                 1916 Dnscache
svchost.exe                 2004 LmHosts, RemoteRegistry, SSDPSRV, WebClient

Not XP pro

 

[Cromewell]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

You can also use process explorer.

Edit: or download it and dump it into system32 http://www.computerhope.com/download/winxp/tasklist.exe