SVCHOST.EXE

[Doug]

PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk top
it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work on
the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and runs
fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem to
do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit to
4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he lost
all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
him? Also turning off all programs in msconfig/startup
does not help......

[Kevin]

Try using Spybot Search and Destroy. It sounds like some kind of intrusion
to me. I'm sure you know this, but I'll repeat it anyway, just in case it
slipped your mind. Update his firewall, anti-virus and check Windows Update
for the latest critical updates from Microsoft.

"Doug" > wrote in message
...
> PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
> boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
> one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
> Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
> thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
> programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
> would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
> Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
> another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
> he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk top
> it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work on
> the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and runs
> fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem to
> do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit to
> 4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he lost
> all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
> him? Also turning off all programs in msconfig/startup
> does not help......
>

Thanks for the reply...yes I ran Spybot and a few other
spyware programs. He has all the lastest updates
installed. He had Microsoft on the phone for over two
hours today and they could not help him.


>-----Original Message-----
>Try using Spybot Search and Destroy. It sounds like
some kind of intrusion
>to me. I'm sure you know this, but I'll repeat it
anyway, just in case it
>slipped your mind. Update his firewall, anti-virus and
check Windows Update
>for the latest critical updates from Microsoft.
>
>"Doug" > wrote in
message
...
>> PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
>> boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
>> one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
>> Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
>> thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
>> programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
>> would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
>> Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
>> another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
>> he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk
top
>> it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work
on
>> the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and
runs
>> fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem
to
>> do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit
to
>> 4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he
lost
>> all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
>> him? Also turning off all programs in msconfig/startup
>> does not help......
>>
>
>
>.
>

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Check event viewer for errors that correspond to the time when the problem
occurs. Since it happens each time you boot the system, you should see such
an error, if any, for each boot. Double click the error, the information
contained within my give a hint as to the source of the issue.

As to the graphics problem, running sfc likely corrupted or changed the
driver for the graphics card, it's possible the correct driver wasn't
installed previously either so XP may have replaced it with the best one it
could find in Windows setup. Check the card manufacturer's website for the
latest driver or check whatever driver was being used previously. If it's
the same driver is currently installed, the driver is corrupted, remove it
and reinstall it.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

> wrote in message
...
> Thanks for the reply...yes I ran Spybot and a few other
> spyware programs. He has all the lastest updates
> installed. He had Microsoft on the phone for over two
> hours today and they could not help him.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Try using Spybot Search and Destroy. It sounds like
> some kind of intrusion
>>to me. I'm sure you know this, but I'll repeat it
> anyway, just in case it
>>slipped your mind. Update his firewall, anti-virus and
> check Windows Update
>>for the latest critical updates from Microsoft.
>>
>>"Doug" > wrote in
> message
...
>>> PC is taking 2-3 minutes to bring up the desk-top after
>>> boot up. Looking at the Task Manger/Processes I can see
>>> one of the svchost.exe is running at 80-90 CPU and
>>> Performance is at 100% CPU Usage. Signs of a Virus I
>>> thought. Ran lots of checkers and all the ad-ware
>>> programs I could think of. Did not find anything that
>>> would cause harm. Nothing is showing up in Norton or
>>> Stinger. This is happing on my Dads PC, he lives in
>>> another state so hard to see all that is going on. When
>>> he moves the cursor down to the task bar on the desk
> top
>>> it shows the hour glass. Can not get anything to work
> on
>>> the task bar, but can on the desk top. All is OK and
> runs
>>> fine in Safe Mode. Ran SFC /Scannow and all that seem
> to
>>> do was, some how make the Color quality go from 32 bit
> to
>>> 4 bit for the display. Go figure! One last note, he
> lost
>>> all restore points also, so no help there. Any help for
>>> him? Also turning off all programs in msconfig/startup
>>> does not help......
>>>
>>
>>
>>.
>>