Svchost?

[Disruptor]

I've been using windows xp ever sense it came out, and I
can't seem to figure out what svchost is... I read the
info on it and it said something like "Generic Host
Process for Win32 Services" Anyways my question is how
come when I'm in task manager it takes almost 50+ percent
of my CPU ... even if that's a Microsoft program that's
entirely too much CPU and I want to rid of the program if
I have to? What should I do... is it a virus? Or is there
a way to make it stop eating my CPU process.

[Ray Taylor]

Greetings.

Svchost is a system service which you should notice in the task manager,
there are a few instances of this running at the same time.

It controls a number of other services and is also has its own uses. For
egsample, if microsoft were to design a very simple service that checked the
number lock etc, and also have another to maintain the time on your
computer, these would be simple 50kb programs and would need more ram and
cpu power to run them than needed just to keep them in memory and running.
Instead these ultra small services have been put together to form svchost.

svchost i know for sure controls some hardware functions and system
functions so if you were to terminate svchost, one of them being closed will
crash your computer.

I have never seen a solution to fixing its cpu over usage other than the
format c: command to fix the problem but we dont want to go that far do we.

Hope this helps,
Ray Taylor




"Disruptor" > wrote in message
...
> I've been using windows xp ever sense it came out, and I
> can't seem to figure out what svchost is... I read the
> info on it and it said something like "Generic Host
> Process for Win32 Services" Anyways my question is how
> come when I'm in task manager it takes almost 50+ percent
> of my CPU ... even if that's a Microsoft program that's
> entirely too much CPU and I want to rid of the program if
> I have to? What should I do... is it a virus? Or is there
> a way to make it stop eating my CPU process.

[Walter Clayton]

SVCHost is just a wrapper for a related group of dlls.
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314056 for more
information.
High processor utilization can occur for a variety of reasons. Discovering
the reason why and correcting the issue does not require doing a clean
reinstall. In fact, that simply recreates the problem.

If you have a Visioneer scanner see the following:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303777

If that's not the issue, kill the specific process and see what kind of
functionality you loose in order to isolate the culprit.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
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"Disruptor" > wrote in message
...
> I've been using windows xp ever sense it came out, and I
> can't seem to figure out what svchost is... I read the
> info on it and it said something like "Generic Host
> Process for Win32 Services" Anyways my question is how
> come when I'm in task manager it takes almost 50+ percent
> of my CPU ... even if that's a Microsoft program that's
> entirely too much CPU and I want to rid of the program if
> I have to? What should I do... is it a virus? Or is there
> a way to make it stop eating my CPU process.