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dua
December 12th 03, 09:38 PM
how did you fix this?
>-----Original Message-----
>After logging onto my system, Task Manager shows
>svhost.exe gobbling up memory and I hear the hard disk
>churning. It just keeps on increasing. When doing this
it
>runs as a Local Service. I can stop that process, but
>another one starts up afterwards and repeats the
senario.
>I can stop that one too. Eventually it seems to go away.
>can anyone explain what might be happening?
>(XP Pro, SP1, latest updates applied)
>Thanks, Robert
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