Questions tagged [svchost]
Services host. This process is used by Windows to host services.
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How to stop svchost.exe from consuming internet data?
What is svchost? When I’m connected to the internet svchost.exe consumes internet data for at least 15 minutes. Why is that happening? How to stop svchost.exe from consuming so much internet data?
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Why is svchost.exe(netsvcs) taking so much RAM?
I have suffered myself from this problem, with svchost.exe (netsvcs) taking over 30 - 50% of my total memory.
There have been several cases of the same issue happening with lots of people.
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SVCHOST.EXE (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) is using almost 100% disk usage?
I'm not running any other program, only Task Manager and Resource Monitor. It made my machine heavily non-responsive, even cursor sometimes jumps here and there and it's not accepting any keyboard ...
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svchost.exe (netsvcs) high memory usage
OS: Windows 8 x64 (with all important updates installed)
Symptom: On occasion or when Windows Update window is opened, svchost.exe (netsvcs) memory usage would soar to as high as ~2GB.
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SVC Host consumming 99% CPU
Our server is constantly consuming too much CPU, with svchost.exe seems to be the culprit.
See the screenshow below:
File contents of 1.bat:
svchost -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://xmr.prohash.net:...
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Windows Update doesn't work and consumes 100% of CPU [duplicate]
I have a fresh installed computer with Windows 7, 64-bit, Service Pack 1.
After a few minutes after startup, svchost.exe is consuming 100% of one cpu core.
I know there are many threads which are ...
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svchost causes high cpu usage
Svchost.exe in my Windows 7(x64, Ultimate) PC causes high CPU usage sometimes.
The CPU stays at about 65%. The services which are being run by this instance of svchost are FDResPub, SSDPSRV and ...
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SVC Host service not visible in Svchost viewer
Some port required by my application was put in TIME_WAIT status by svchost which I found by running netstat. I used this application called Svchost Viewer to track the PID corresponding to the ...
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Windows updates and driver search consume massive amounts of RAM.
I have noticed on several Windows 7 machines that Windows updates and Windows driver search can cause svchost.exe to consume excessive amount of RAM.
In the case of Windows updates, it seems that all ...
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Is it safe to delete all svchost processes?
On Windows 7 I ended the Network Restricted one to speed up my computer. It worked (thank god) but my computer is still a bit slow.
Is it safe to delete all the svchost processes?
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svchost process takes a huge amount of memory at times [duplicate]
At random times, the svchost process takes a lot of memory, and the PC becomes unusable. A screenshot is below.
Is it a known issue? How can I found out what causes it, and how can it be fixed?
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HDD activity when computer is idle
What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle.
It happens on Windows 7, automatic defragmentation and antivirus ...
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CPU usage is 100% because of svchost.exe windows 7
It has been a while now since my laptop started being very slow and cpu usage is 100% almost all the time. I downloaded process monitor and below is the process details that is taking most of the ...
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svchost.exe is eating up the memory
svchost.exe is eating up my memory and my laptop is damn slow. When I checked the services of that svchost, its giving these many services.
wudfsvc, WPDbusenum, wlansvc, uxsms, trkwks, sysmain, ...
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Windows 7 SVCHOST consumes copius RAM when searching for drivers [duplicate]
After much trial and error and frustration, I have discovered that svchost can consume several imperial tons of RAM if given the chance when you plug in a new piece of hardware. I find this mind ...
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Isolate hosted service (svchost.exe) in its own process
As many superusers are probably aware by now, svchost.exe is used by Microsoft to host multiple Windows services in a single process, with one process per service group.
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Accidently stopped some services in svchost
I stopped some of the services in svchost.exe in Windows 8 and now I am not able open task manager as it throws error.
When I checked in PowerShell all those services are stopped. Even services.msc ...
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error message on windows startup
I'm using Windows XP. During startup I get the following screen.
Windows cannot find C:\Program files\search extension\client.exe. Make sure you types the name correctly, and then try again.To search ...
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What do these commands do exactly?
So, I was having some trouble with my svchost taking up some of my memory. After poking around I discovered it was my SuperFetch. My svchost is about 259k, after disabling Superfecthj it dropped to ...
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svchost.exe high memory usage - wuauserv
I'm running Windows 7, and I've been experiencing high memory usage from one of my svchost.exe processes.
Services under that particular process are BITS, EAPHost, IKEEXT, LanmanServer, MMCSS, ...
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limiting svchost.exe because of copping internet good or bad?
I recently came into problem with one of windows's processes called "svchost" I dont know what is used for, but it chops my bandwith to death and increases my ping (i play online)
I recently installed ...
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svchost.exe - Application Error on startup
I'm using Windows XP. During startup I get the following error:
svchost.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x7c901010" referenced memory at "0x00000b14". The memory could not be "read"...
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svchost.exe process takes 5GB of RAM, after some heavy browsing. What to do?
The Svchost.exe process takes 5GB of RAM after some heavy browsing with Chrome, even though I've closed the browser. How can I prevent this behavior?
I have attached the associated services for that ...
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Re: What Can a Service Do on Windows [duplicate]
On Windows 7, I have to check a box, at the bottom of the Processes tab in Windows Task Manager and I find a list of 14 svchost.exe Windows Services running. It says Host Process for Windows Service. ...
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One particular instance of svchost.exe taking up awful lot of memory. Why?
I have been observing that the process "svchost.exe" in my list of running processes keeps taking an awful lot of memory; close to 550MB at times!
There are multiple instances of svchost.exe running ...
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SvcHost taking up about 300MB [closed]
I have looked at this post and identified the services
svchost eating up memory
Also yesterday I fixed an issue with a corrupt user profile service failed to start
I used the technique in this video ...
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Service Host (SVC.exe) using 10-20% of CPU
Recently my fan has been a little louder than it usually is and I wasn't sure why until I looked at the CPU usage which is always around 10-20% during idle.
My computer has been running Windows 8.1 ...
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Many copies of svchost.exe running [duplicate]
In Windows XP, I see that there are many copies of a process called scvhost.exe, some running as local services, some other as network services and yet some other owned by the system. One of this ...
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svchost.exe using lots of memory slowing my PC down [duplicate]
On my Windows 7 32-bit. svchost.exe is using lots of Memory and slowing my PC down big time.
I already have auto update turned off and it is on manual mode.
How can I fix this problem?
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How to determine what particular service does an svchost process represent?
When I open Windows Task manager and look at the Processes tab I can see numerous svchost.exe processes and one of them uses to produce serious and continuous CPU load from time to time. Needless to ...
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svchost.exe Hogging CPU on Fresh XP Install
I got an ISO of Windows XP Professional with SP3 integrated from dreamspark. I burned it onto a DVD, and installed onto an old computer of mine.
The first thing I did after installation was install ...
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High Disk Usage (PC keeps freezzing)
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Well I don't know when this really happens but this 2 process make the PC stop working and once I look at the HDD light it looks like HDD is working none stop.
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How do I disconnect various connections from svchost.exe
Resource monitor shows that svchost.exe is connecting to various unneeded locations. How do I disconnect those? I added those addresses to my block list in the Comodo Firewall, but it does not help ...
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netsvc (dnscache,wecsvc,tapisvc,nlasvc,cryptsvc) sending stream to address 808:808::3821:ae83:100:20
i have win 8 installed on my computer, using pppoe connection with ipv6 disabled. but when i check on "resmon" i saw there is netsvc sending stream to 808:808::3821:ae83:100:20 address. i try to ...
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Workstation had a 100% CPU process .. help me [duplicate]
Today, while I was doing some vector on Illustrator, suddenly it lags, even my cursor is stuck and moves slowly. I was playing some music at the same time, it got stuck too. Here's a screenshot of my ...
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Why/how is svchost.exe using 6.5GB of memory?
What is going on here? I have almost nothing running.
By almost nothing, I mean Firefox, and some background network applications that are entirely passive and would never use this much memory.
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Analyzing the Resource Monitor: Network Activity
I am starting to look at my network activity to determine if there's anything on my system communicating with the outside world that shouldn't. How do I determine what is valid and needed?
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Hard disk keeps running (Windows 7)
Windows 7 64-bit.
I hear HDD running constantly and HDD LED blinking.
I quit all applications, even deleted antivirus software (BitDefender)
but it is still running.
I searched many helps, watched '...
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High CPU usage svchost.exe & ezSharedSvcHost.exe
I am on Windows 7. My computer has been pretty slow on a regular basis. RAM doesn't seem to be the issue, but my CPU usage is through the roof, which is causing my fan to always be running.
I ...
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High CPU usage by 'svchost.exe' and 'coreServiceShell.exe'
I am having a laptop running on Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit. Since past few days, my laptop is facing a serious problem. Whenever I connect to Internet, either svchost.exe or coreServiceShell.exe or ...
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Windows update using svchost.exe?
Lately I have been experiencing a lot of computers on our network being bogged down by svchost.exe. Nearly 50-100% CPU usage is associated with this process and I can't seem to figure out how to nix ...
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HDD light blinking every second
some people asked about it already, but in my case it isn't a problem with the CD drive (it happens even when I take it out). I run procmon from SysInternals for a while and found out, that svchost....
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In TCPView, why does the svchost.exe process need to listen on so many TCP and UDP ports
Looking at TCPView I can see over 25 svchost processes using TCP and UDP ports. If these svchost processes are the various services required by Windows, then why would so many be using the network?
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SVCHost using 100% CPU in Windows 7
I am having a problem with Windows 7. When I boot up, the CPU jumps to 100% execution for about 10-15 minutes. During this time, it is really slow, and if I play any music, the songs play slowly and ...
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Is winrscmde good or bad?
Is svchost running with a description of "winrscmde" good or bad? Is it spyware? Malwarebytes and windows security essensials report two trojans found, but they don't say that is winrscmde. I booted ...
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What command line options are available to svchost.exe?
It seems the only command line option used by Windows for svchost.exe is -k, followed by the group name which svchost needs to start for a given service. Yet, use of a command line option indicates ...
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Debugging CSRSS.EXE Application Error/Crash
For a while now, I have been getting an intermittent crash of SVCHOST.EXE on boot in Windows XP. Because it is intermittent, I cannot reliably reproduce it, nor can I narrow down when it started, and ...
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Windows 7 svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) reading/writing like crazy
I'm trying to understand why my Windows 7 machine is constantly reading/writing to the HDD, making everything go slow. As you can see in the screenshot, resmon reports that there is a lot of disk ...
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What is the svchost.exe process and what does it do?
I often see svchost.exe processes in my task manager lately, and sometimes they seems to slow down my PC or get hanged. I have installed SVC host viewer, SVC Host process analyzer and Process Explorer....
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How do I remove the svchost.exe from my PC? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I am facing problems with my computer because of an svchost.exe virus. There are so many svchost.exe processes ...
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