svchost.exe using all CPU time

[Pete Carr]

A couple of ideas (you may have already done them but..)
Run a adware syware progran callled Ad-Ware.
I have seen spyware take over a computer

Is norton speed disk set to auto run
at certain times. It could still be running.
It happened to me.

Do you have DSL or Cable?
If you have a router try to disable uPnp
to see if that helps. Did mine big time.
If not you can always enable it again.'

Pete Carr


>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running Windows XP Pro and have all of the updates
>installed. My system is a P4, 2.8 gig CPU with 1 gig of
>ram. After I had the system running for 3 or 4 months,
>svchost.exe started taking all of the CPU. I have other
>programs running in the backgroung and these all slowed
>down considerably. Calculations that used to take 3
>hours now take days to complete because svchost is
taking
>all of the CPU. I can end one of the svchost processes
>(the one taking all of the CPU) using the task manager
>and everything is fine for a few hours and then there is
>another svchost process running and taking all of the
>CPU. It seems to start out with a normal amount of CPU
>but the longer it runs, the more CPU it takes. I have a
>friend that has the same problem. How do I fix it?
>
>Mark
>.
>