MAP
March 10th 04, 01:21 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi All-
>
>I have several svchost processes running and some are up
to 35MB- are they necessary? If I only want to play an
online internet game, surely I can determine what is
necessary to run in the background and what isn't (i.e.
save RAM?). I have tried to find out what the svchost is,
but answers are kinda vague.
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>.
>If 35mb of ram is a concern then you need to install
more.
Service Host - Generic Host Process for Win32 Services.
The full path to this file should be shown in The
Ultimate Troubleshooter as C:\WinNT\System32
\Svchost.exe or C:\Windows\System32\Svchost.exe.
Windows 2000/XP/2003 only. SVCHOST is a generic process
which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs
rather than EXEs. At startup SVCHOST checks the Services
portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based
services that it needs to load, and then loads them.
There can be many instances of SVCHOST running, as there
will be one instance of SVCHOST for every DLL-based
service or grouping of services (the grouping of services
is determined by the programmers who wrote the services
in question). Under Windows XP Professional and Windows
2003 you can find out what DLL-based services SVCHOST is
running by typing Tasklist /SVC at a Command/MS‑DOS
Prompt (this command is not available in Windows XP
Home), while under Windows 2000 you need to use the
TLIST -s command from a Command Prompt (MS-DOS Prompt)
(depending on how Windows 2000 was installed you may need
to download TLIST from the Microsoft website or install
it from one of the miscellaneous folders on the Windows
2000 CD).
Recommendation :
An integral part of the operating system, leave alone -
multiple instances of SVCHOST is a normal occurrence. If
you experience SVCHOST errors, the problem is most likely
not with SVCHOST but with the DLLs it is hosting.
However, if you experience a lot of SVCHOST errors, and
particularly, if the full path to SVCHOST.EXE is not
any of the above, then you most likely have a virus (see
below).
>Hi All-
>
>I have several svchost processes running and some are up
to 35MB- are they necessary? If I only want to play an
online internet game, surely I can determine what is
necessary to run in the background and what isn't (i.e.
save RAM?). I have tried to find out what the svchost is,
but answers are kinda vague.
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>.
>If 35mb of ram is a concern then you need to install
more.
Service Host - Generic Host Process for Win32 Services.
The full path to this file should be shown in The
Ultimate Troubleshooter as C:\WinNT\System32
\Svchost.exe or C:\Windows\System32\Svchost.exe.
Windows 2000/XP/2003 only. SVCHOST is a generic process
which acts as a host for processes that run from DLLs
rather than EXEs. At startup SVCHOST checks the Services
portion of the Registry to construct a list of DLL-based
services that it needs to load, and then loads them.
There can be many instances of SVCHOST running, as there
will be one instance of SVCHOST for every DLL-based
service or grouping of services (the grouping of services
is determined by the programmers who wrote the services
in question). Under Windows XP Professional and Windows
2003 you can find out what DLL-based services SVCHOST is
running by typing Tasklist /SVC at a Command/MS‑DOS
Prompt (this command is not available in Windows XP
Home), while under Windows 2000 you need to use the
TLIST -s command from a Command Prompt (MS-DOS Prompt)
(depending on how Windows 2000 was installed you may need
to download TLIST from the Microsoft website or install
it from one of the miscellaneous folders on the Windows
2000 CD).
Recommendation :
An integral part of the operating system, leave alone -
multiple instances of SVCHOST is a normal occurrence. If
you experience SVCHOST errors, the problem is most likely
not with SVCHOST but with the DLLs it is hosting.
However, if you experience a lot of SVCHOST errors, and
particularly, if the full path to SVCHOST.EXE is not
any of the above, then you most likely have a virus (see
below).