Re: svchost freezing my system

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"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Command line is
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k HPService

I assume this has something to do with my HP Printer.

Also I saw Parent:
services.exe(716)

Its command line is:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe

And its Parent is:
winlogon.exe(672)

Please note PID numbers vary by machine and session so quoting them is not
helpful.

I know, but I was just putting everything I saw in Process Explorer.

We exchanged posts on this issue last August. Did you ever follow up one
of my other suggestions to post a copy of a HijackThis log to a forum
specialising in these logs?

Actually, I don't remember this one. But I don't think I did. I probably
found the problem since I have only had this particular problem for the last
few weeks or so.

Thanks,

Tom

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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tshad wrote:
On my XP SP2, I have been having problem with my system where it
would run fine for a
while than seem to freeze.

I was able to find out that in the task manager sorted by CPU that
svchost.exe would be at the top of list using about 6 megs of memory.
I found that if I ended that process the system would work fine.

I used Process Explorer to find out what svchost.exe belonged to.

It does show me that svchost.exe pid 232 was spawned from a service
(716).
The ProcEx shows me that that service is owned by Microsoft but not
what the service is, but it is under Winlogon.exe and is taking
around 95% of the machine. Not sure
what the difference is between the red and the green on the cpu usage
graph but it is showing between 94-97%.

The private bytes is showing about 95 percent yellow an 5.3 MB

The task manager shows it at 5,716K (5.7MB) - not sure if this is
related.
I/O bytes is 0.

There is a NetLogon service but that isn't started

What would cause this?

In a few minutes, I will need to reboot the machine if I don't end the
process.

This happens everytime I start the machine.

So the only thing I can do is remember to go directly to the Task
manager, sort by CPU and it will ALWAYS be the one on top. I then
end the process. The system works fine from that point on.

Obviously, this is not supposed to happen, but I can't seem to find
out what is causing WinLogon.exe to do that or what svclogon is doing.

I'd appreciate any help on this as I have been trying to find an
answer for weeks on this.

Thanks,

Tom




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