what the hell is svchost.exe? SYSTEM?

cabernet

cabernet

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My computer is running a dual core processor 2.4ghz. I'm running your average software and programs, nothing shady, stuff like office 07, AIM... maybe limewire. When I play games its slows way down, and thats not right because I'm using an 8600 GTS graphics card and it can't run counter strike of all games on high or even medium without decent framerates. At first I thought it was a video card problem when I finally opened up my task manager it shows my CPU running at 70-90%!!! I had just recently reverted back to XP pro from vista and using vista it never got any higher than 33%! So I ended some processed. none helped except for when I end the process called svchost.exe which was a system process and my CPU usage went all the way down to 2-3%... What is this thing? is it important? I can go online and do everything else just fine now, and if I do need to just get rid of it how can I get rid of it permanently?
 
Well it handles processes executed from DLLs. I suggest you run those scans I posted earlier, to see if it goes better.
 
no the scans came up with 11 detected items I got rid of them and it still processed at around 80% at least until I end the svchost.exe Its weird because it shows that its only taking about 12,000 k but when I get rid of it my processing usage goes waaaaay down.
 
CPU and Memory usage is not the same.

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