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I am having a huge problem. The svchost.exe is taking up my cpu usage. I have tried everything and read everything. I figured out that pc worked fine with audio ripper unchecked under services under msconfig. But when I uncheck it my sound doesnt work. Please help? I have Windows XP.
Have you checked for spyware or other nasties that may be running on your machine. Try adaware or spybot and do a thorough virus check with the latest signature files with whatever virus checker you are using.
svchost is the launcher of windows services. to know what are the services running under svchost, try this:
click start | run | cmd
type "tasklist /svc"
NOTE: This is only for XP Pro. XP Home does not have tasklist command.
In the third-column u can see what application/service is runing under each svchost process
read this kb so you know more about svchost http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q314056
Also, there are viruses that took the same name but launched from the wrong location. The good one belongs here:
%WinDir%\system32
If yours is running from anywhere else, it's a virus.
Check here for Blaster:
%WinDir%\system32\Wins\
If you find it there, right-click it and look at "Properties". You'll see it's really TFTP (Trivial FTP) renamed to fool you.
Go into Control Panel, and then Administrative tools, then event viewer. Look for any errors that are listed. It sounds like you have a service thats trying to start and failing, over and over and over.....
I have finally fixed the problem. I had checked certain things under services such as audio ripper? I dont know but my comp works fine now thankz