Re: Yet another SVCHOST.EXE posting (my workaround)

Big Al

I am pleased you seem to have a solution.

SVCHOST.EXE is an important part of Windows. Using Task Manager it is
difficult to narrow down which svchost process is generating CPU. usage. In
Process Explorer you can see which and that is why I asked about the Command
Line of the Process. The Command Line will identify which Services are
commonly used on most computers. Inevitably the Services on all computers
are not identical but it is a good way to understand what is going on on a
computer that you cannot see. Thus if the Command Line had been
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs I might have asked questions
about the Windows Automatic Update service -a common cause of excessive CPU
usage.

You mentioned PID numbers earlier. These are not helpful in that they are
not common to all computers and if you restart the computer the same process
will have a new PID number. The Command Line is always the same.


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Gerry
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BIG AL wrote:
Gerry,

I changed the file back to a "DLL"

I also changed the the setup from automatic to manual.

After a Reboot the CPU is running normal... VERY GOOD

I will watch it for a few day to see if this fixes the problem....

I have been doing lots of reading about this nasty little program
called "SVCHOST.EXE" and what problems it is causing many people.
Just doing a Google search will reply back of hundreds of fixes,
problems etc etc etc. I had read one report that a person paid HP
several hundred dollors and still never got the problem fixed. It
appears that this SVCHOST.EXE program is the watch dog for other
programs whenever a computer boots up and it can hold several
programs within it. But whenever a problem is occured that it will
never reports to the user which program is causing the error. Thank
goodness for the person who wrote "PROCESS EXPLORER", this is one
very nice utility program and very handy to use. I still have not
been able to understand all of its information within it, but at
least it gave me a direction on where to go and what to look for....

Thank again for everything and I will keep you up to date if I find
out any more information about this problem. But IAW all the
listings that I have read it has been going on for around 3 years now.

PS. That person that I said above that spent hundreds of dollors
also said that he talked with HP help and that HP person said that
there was no problem with that file and it was not their problem......

Any way thank you for all of your help....

BIG AL

"Gerry" wrote:

BIG AL

Change the file name back to HPSLPSVC32.DLL.

I think to this is the Service you need to change. It monitors ink
levels amongst other things.

Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and
right click on HP Digital Image Monitor and select Properties.
Change the
StartUp type from Automatic to Manual.

The change could be just a Stop gap requiring an update of HP
software.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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BIG AL wrote:
Gerry,

GOOD NEWS & not so good news.

I want to thank you for your help. You gave me enough of insite on
my problem. I first ran the program "PROCESS EXPLORER" and found
its a great utility program. Lots of information was displayed,
most of which I did not understand, but it gave me enough of insite
of which program was causing my problem with the SVCHOST.EXE and
what computer progam was causing my problem.


First off I killed PID 1302 and noticed that CPU usage fell down
from the 100% useage. I rebooted the computer and the 100% CPU
usage returned. I next download the program and saved it to the
desktop and unzipped it. I re-ran the program and found that P!D
1408 was the new SVCHOST.EXE was causing the problem. I
highlighted in and found that a window opened up with lots of tabs.
Starting looking at all this unknow information I figured out the
program that had been causing my problem was located in
C:\program files\HP\digital imaging\bin. The file name is
HPSLPSVC32.DLL. I did a search for this file and changed the file
ext. from DLL to BAK. I have rebooted the computer several times
and have found that my CPU is running normal now.

NOW for the NOT SO GOOD NEWS: I dont know what I have screw-up !!!
by changing this file name. I kind of figure that maybe my wireless
network printer will not work correctly now. But I will work on
that soon. I was thinking of maybe uninstall the network computer
on that computer and and try to reinstall it again. I will be
giving this a shot really soon. I will keep you all up to date on
what I have found...

Gerry, Again I wish to thank you for all of your help because with
out you giving me a link to the program "PROCESS EXPLORER" I would
still be there pulling my hair out....

Thank you.....

BIG AL


"Gerry" wrote:

BIG AL

You need to research more about the svchost.exe process that is
displaying high CPU usage!

You can investigate Processes using Process Explorer, which is a
better tool than Task Manager.

Please provide the Command Line of the Process giving any
unexplained CPU usage and list the services that use that process.

Process Explorer is more commonly used than Process Express in
these newsgroups to diagnose these type of problems. If you cannot
provide the information requested please download and install
Process Explorer.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

It would be helpful if you could post the Command Line of the
svchost process generating the excessive CPU usage. In Process
Explorer place cursor on Process and select Properties, Image.

Your deletions relating to prefetch are I suspect of dubious value.
If you have deleted layout.ini you may removed the ability to use
prefetch and the performance benefits it can bring.





Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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BIG AL wrote:
I have been having this problem with 100% CPU usage for some time
now. The SVCHOST.EXE is using approx 90-99% of CPU.

My work around has been to:

1.) END the process for SVCHOST.EXE (Windows Task Manager,
processes tab)
2.) start > run and type in %TEMP% (highlight & delete all
files)
3.) start > run and type in PREFETCH (highlight & delete all
files)
4.) REBOOT computer.

Once my computer has rebooted the CPU usage now only display
whenever programs are running and their amount of usage.

NOTE: If I shut down the computer or restarted it, I have to
repeat this process over again because the CPU will be at 100%
usage again.

This is how I have been working around this problem now for better
that a year...

I was thinking that my antivirus was the cause to this problem,
but just tonight Norton help had removed my Norton360 off of my
computer and the problem still exists. So I now believe that it
is one of Microsoft updates that have caused this problem.


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