Re: svchost consumes 100% of CPU on startup

He must have 95% of the internet in there. (-:

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Richard Urban

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> John,
>
> Jeepers! 2.4MB I thought my HOSTS file was pretty good sized at 288 KB.
>
> It is ipconfig.exe and it is available on XP Home.
>
> The /? switch will show Help. I.e. ipconfig /?
>
> Type or paste ipconfig /? in a command prompt window and see if that
> works.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:1FD0D8E8-EBCF-4852-B69C-C0BDD04ACED0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> John Wasserbauer <JohnWasserbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and
> pecked:
>> Wesley,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your response. I tried the "ipconfig /flushdns"
>> and the "ipconfig /displaydns" commands. Unfortunately both "failed
>> during execution". Are these available for the XP Home edition or only
>> XP Pro? At any rate, the editor's note about running services.msc and
>> setting the service startup to "manual" solved the problem. Many thanks
>> for taking the time to help!!
>>
>> John
>>
>> "Wesley Vogel" wrote:
>>
>>> You can purge the DNS Resolver cache.
>>>
>>> The ipconfig /flushdns command provides you with a means to flush and
>>> reset the contents of the DNS client resolver cache. Resetting the
>>> cache does not eliminate entries that are preloaded from the local Hosts
>>> file. To eliminate those entries from the cache, remove them from the
>>> HOSTS file.
>>>
>>> Open a command prompt...
>>> Start | Run | Type: cmd | Click OK |
>>> Type or paste this in the command prompt window:
>>>
>>> ipconfig /flushdns
>>>
>>> Hit your Enter key.
>>>
>>> You can then view the DNS cache.
>>>
>>> Type or paste this in the command prompt window:
>>> ipconfig /displaydns
>>> Hit your Enter key.
>>> -----
>>>
>>> [[ Editors Note: in most cases a large HOSTS file (over 135 kb) tends to
>>> slow down the machine. This only occurs in W2000 and XP. Windows 98 and
>>> ME are not affected.
>>>
>>> To resolve this issue (manually) open the "Services Editor"
>>>
>>> Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)
>>> Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties
>>> Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"
>>> Select: Manual, click Apply\Ok and restart.
>>> You can see that the above "Service" is not needed (after a little
>>> browsing) by opening the Services Editor again, scroll down to DNS
>>> Client and check the "Status" column. It should be blank, if it was
>>> needed it would show "Started" in that column. ]]
>>> From...
>>> Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
>>> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
>>>
>>> --
>>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>>
>>> Wes
>>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>>
>>> In news:0C31B614-1F97-4401-8ABC-995DB526D3AE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>> John Wasserbauer <JohnWasserbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and
>>> pecked:
>>>> So I startup my computer and it works at a staggeringly slow pace.
>>>> Using Process Explorer I've found that an instance of svchost.exe with
>>>> only the Dnscache service is consuming my CPU. If I kill the process
>>>> then the problem goes away. However, this seems to make other apps
>>>> like
>>>> Explorer do funny things, like take me off line constantly. Also,
>>>> Dnscache (a Microsoft product) seems to be an important component of a
>>>> healthy, internet-connected Windows XP. Anyone know how I can repair
>>>> the Dnscache service?
>>>>
>>>> john
>


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