Re: svchost.exe - extremely high CPU usage and endless...

Its Windows XP sending personal information to M$ headquarters.

"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Came back to that computer an hour later and the task manager was on the
screen. svchost.exe was not eating the CPU up, but then again, I
disconnected the network cable. We'll see how it cooperates now. By the
way, some more Windows updates are rolling in.
"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I made a slight typo. *The Internet is working on the Compaq.* And to
make it just a bit clearer, three computers total are connected to a
router, and the router is connected to the cable modem.
"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The network card is in a PCI slot and is connected to a router with two
other computers (One with XP SP2 and one with Windows XP SP2 & Vista
Beta 2 Build 5384) which is then connected to the cable modem. The
Internet is working the Compaq and has already had a few Windows updates
as well as A/V definition updates.
"JS" <@> wrote in message news:unNUj7soGHA.1600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sounds like your PC is now trying to do a Network discovery to see what
on the network. What's your NIC card connected to?

JS

"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just installed XP (with SP2) on a 400MHz AMD K6 Compaq 5340 for
someone last night. (It had XP on it a few years ago when my grandma
had it, and it worked okay then but a little slow. My grandma got rid
of it and someone I know still has a computer with Windows 95 and a
100MHz processor, so I told her she could use this Compaq as I know
it's run XP before.) It was running pretty good until this morning
when I turned it on. I added a network card this morning, and it has
been slow ever since. After the computer has been on for a few minutes
and everything has loaded, svchost.exe will eat 100% of the CPU and is
very relentless and won't quit. It will eat 100% of the CPU
endlessly. Task manager and most programs will not open at all when
this happens. About the only thing that seems to work is the explorer,
but it works extremely slow. The only way I knew it was svchost that
was eating 100% of the CPU usage was I opened task manager before it
began eating the CPU up. Any ideas to why this svchost is doing that?
It is only one svchost that's doing this, the several other svchost's
are at 0% usage. The Compaq's got 220MB of RAM and a 4.3GB hard drive
that's still over half free. If I 'end task' to this svchost, the
computer will begin to behave a little strangely and some but not all
of Luna will disappear. The taskbar will look like the classic, but
the rest is Luna, including open windows. I have not activated XP yet
as I want to make sure everything is in place before doing so.
Help... Please... Please...

Software installed (not very much):
Avast! Antivirus 4.7
Microsft Office 2000 Small Business (Installed Word & Excel only)
Lavasoft AdAware SE Personal
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.1 (as version 6 & 7 are very slow, so I
wouldn't dare put it on this computer.)







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