help with svchost.exe taking up my CPU Usage

**redsrock17** · June 5th, 2004, 04:42 PM

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.

**gazzak** · June 6th, 2004, 07:14 AM

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.

**natcom** · June 7th, 2004, 07:19 AM

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

**JeffO93** · June 7th, 2004, 02:03 PM

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.

**Diver01** · June 7th, 2004, 02:22 PM

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.....