Why Oh Why ?

Sitting at anywhere (home, hot spot), svchost starts using all remaining
CPU cycles. Then I cannot do much of anything else.

I look at what is being sent and I see very little data going anywhere.
It is like it is trying to do something it cannot do for whatever reason.

Then I see that the task bar has changed FONT and COLOR and after boot
turns to normal.

What is going on ?

I have scanned for viruses and found nothing.
I use CCleaner and it does not help

If I kill svchost I think it affects other stuff but the CPU cycles
return to expected "normal".

How do I stop svchost without really killing it /

I have no clue what is going on.
Using TCPview does not give me the name of any app !

Wireshark is way to complex for me and I think the installed stuff is
detrimental. I always get better performance when I uninstall
wireshark. Anyway, I cannot figure out how to successfully use it to
find problems. I am not an IT guy !

WinXPUser wrote:
Sitting at anywhere (home, hot spot), svchost starts using all remaining CPU cycles. Then
I cannot do much of anything else.

I look at what is being sent and I see very little data going anywhere.
It is like it is trying to do something it cannot do for whatever reason.

Then I see that the task bar has changed FONT and COLOR and after boot turns to normal.

What is going on ?

I have scanned for viruses and found nothing.
I use CCleaner and it does not help

If I kill svchost I think it affects other stuff but the CPU cycles return to expected
"normal".

How do I stop svchost without really killing it /

I have no clue what is going on.
Using TCPview does not give me the name of any app !

Wireshark is way to complex for me and I think the installed stuff is detrimental. I
always get better performance when I uninstall wireshark. Anyway, I cannot figure out how
to successfully use it to find problems. I am not an IT guy !

Do you have xp auto updates turned on? If so then turn it off.
Does your machine have any anti-virus programs running?
Google search came up with a lot on svchost. Here is one:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/sv...ss-in-windows/

WinXPUser wrote:
Sitting at anywhere (home, hot spot), svchost starts using all remaining
CPU cycles. Then I cannot do much of anything else.

I look at what is being sent and I see very little data going anywhere.
It is like it is trying to do something it cannot do for whatever reason.

Then I see that the task bar has changed FONT and COLOR and after boot
turns to normal.

What is going on ?

I have scanned for viruses and found nothing.
I use CCleaner and it does not help

If I kill svchost I think it affects other stuff but the CPU cycles
return to expected "normal".

How do I stop svchost without really killing it /

I have no clue what is going on.
Using TCPview does not give me the name of any app !

Wireshark is way to complex for me and I think the installed stuff is
detrimental. I always get better performance when I uninstall
wireshark. Anyway, I cannot figure out how to successfully use it to
find problems. I am not an IT guy !

Look for "Automatic Updates" in Control Panels.

https://s14.postimg.org/u0zu1hcup/winxp_wu.gif

Once it's turned off, you can reboot. When the system
comes back up, check in Task Manager again.

*******

To see what's doing it, you can:

1) Download Process Explorer.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rocessexplorer

2) Unpack it.
3) Right-click the executable, and select "Run as Administrator"
from the right-click menu. This gives you the ability to look
inside a SVCHOST.
4) When ProcExp.exe runs, find the busy SVCHOST. Click it and
select "Properties". There should be a tab for threads.
In there, you should see "wuauserv" railing a single core.

If you didn't take care of your Automatic Updates yet,
you could use an Administrator Command Prompt window
and try

net stop wuauserv

And the CPU usage should stop, without affecting the other fourteen
things remaining within that SVCHOST.

Note that, services have "recovery policies". When a service stops,
the designers have no interest in recognizing that users stop them.
They assume instead, the service crashed. And so, five minute later,
they restart it. They can try as many as three times, to restart it
again. And there are also ways to make it extra-obnoxious. You can use
a couple services in a "tag-team" fashion, to keep the little game
going. This is why, for me, whacking at them with my little hammer
gets boring after a while. And out comes that control panel instead.

Paul

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:45:48 -0700, WinXPUser
wrote:


Wireshark is way to complex for me and I think the installed stuff is
detrimental. I always get better performance when I uninstall
wireshark. Anyway, I cannot figure out how to successfully use it to
find problems. I am not an IT guy !

Wireshark uses no system resources(other than HD space) if you
set the WinPcap services to "manual". The service is called "NPF".
When you install Wireshark, WinPcap gives you the option to start the
service automatically. Say "no".
If you are not using any internet utilities, Wireshark should
be relatively quiet.
Mine captures a ping to the router every now and then, and
NOTHING ELSE.
If it does connect frequently to some IP, just look up the IP
and see if it's legit.
The last version 100% compatible with XP was 1.10.14, AFAIK.
(It's what I use).
HTH
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