Re: Sluggish performance - ?

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DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Gene. I wonder if this might be an svchost services problem.
That's by far the biggest memory hog, can get well above 100MB. I
read somewhere about System Restore maxing out CPU usage, dunno how to
check that...

A better alternative to Task Manager is Process Explorer, d/l from
sysinternals.com .
ProcessExplorer has much more detail and the ablility to easily look
inside each SVCHOST process and tell you the individual services being
provided by each.

I'm looking at Process Explorer's screen, and I've identified the
svchost process that's hogging memory. In the lower pane is a listing
of hundreds of handles, with no additional info. Not sure what to do
with this...


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