svchost.exe

[frodoislost]

My CPU is running off the charts and the culprits are
svchost.exe and system idle process. They will not
settle. Usage is consistently over 90% Could it be that I
deleted a wrong file by any chance? How can I correct?

thanks for your help!!

frodoislost

[Sir_George]

frodoislost,

The word "idle" means "inactive" or "not being used." Therefore, the system
idle process should be a large number, say 90% or so. If that is the case,
then you have no real problem.

Since you don't state what percentage of usage the other processes are
utilizing it is impossible to diagnose if you actually have a
disproportionate amount of cpu usage.

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"frodoislost" > wrote in message
...
> My CPU is running off the charts and the culprits are
> svchost.exe and system idle process. They will not
> settle. Usage is consistently over 90% Could it be that I
> deleted a wrong file by any chance? How can I correct?
>
> thanks for your help!!
>
> frodoislost

[Unknown]

While in taskmanager and svchost is using time, click the application tab to
see what application is running. If you right click an application and
select go to processes it will highlight the process for that application.
You may want to shutdown virus scanning programs to see if svchost no
longer runs.
"frodoislost" > wrote in message
...
> My CPU is running off the charts and the culprits are
> svchost.exe and system idle process. They will not
> settle. Usage is consistently over 90% Could it be that I
> deleted a wrong file by any chance? How can I correct?
>
> thanks for your help!!
>
> frodoislost