svchost is multiplying

Aem

Aem

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I've been looking at what I can stop from running in the background. I have noticed svchost.exe is a major drain on my system. The number of them varies, but usually is from 6 to 12. What is it, what does it do, why are there so many of them, and how can I get rid of some?
 
its to do with networking, its not advisable to manually quit any of them cos it could cause your system to shut itself down. a major virus (which i honestly cant remember the name of now) used to shut this process down to cause the system to shut down.
 
Ahh, yeah I see, I can get away with terminating a few of them, but then...... goodbye windows.
 
yeah, some message appears and a 60 second countdown starts so that you have enough time to save your work etc, then windows shuts down... give it a try it wont harm anything :)
 
if you want to cut down on how many are running check for unnecessary services and disable them.
 
svchost is yes, but it holds 'services' that run from DLLs. Disabling services (via the administrative tools in control panel) will cut down on the number of svchosts running.
 
fair point, i should have remembered that i sometimes get an error and one of them ends itself without taking the computer with it :)
 
If you want to see what is running inside a given svchost open a command prompt window and type 'Tasklist /SVC' this will show you all the processes running and what services are running in each
 
I have 5 of them, they are there to support different instances of connections on different ports coming in and going out of your connection, you shouldnt really quit any of them because of the risk of damagin something.
 
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