Re: svchst.exe

Malke, thank you.

Excellent suggestions.

I use Comodo firewall and Avast free anti virus;
approximately once a week I run Compu Rx with all its components,
including defrag,

CC Cleaner as a pre registry cleaner and Free Registry cleaner

as well as having Adaware.

It seems that when Avast updates (daily and as sent by Avast during the day)
it takes lots of CPU via svchost and this may be the problem.

I hope Avast update is all the problem is!?!

Robert


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert J. Lafayette wrote:
XP Home sp2.


too much CPU going to one of the svchost.exe commands.

A large svchost.exe, 14,212 k sometimes goes as high as 22,000 k.

Often, too often, pushes CPU to 100% virtually stopping everything else.

What can be done? Do I have too many SYSTEM svchost.exe's? Five (5) are


The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed between the time
things worked and the time they didn't?

The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus
status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and
versions) did you use to determine this?

Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

In your case, I would answer the Second Question first. If the machine is
clean, we can then narrow down the troubleshooting with the answer to the
First Question.


Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
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"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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