svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

Hi,
Anyone know about the svchost.exe problem in wich the proces svchost.exe uses 100% of the cpu? :'( Ending this process leads to sound failures, automatic reboots etc. :(
Not ending it leaves the comp slow ofcourse. Comp worked fine before. This svchost.exe problem showed up out of nowhere and now I don't know how to stop it from using my entire cpu. Anyone have any idea? :-\ Thanx.

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

hy try removin it from registry or startup or from config :)
just look out whers it located. :) n delete it :)

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

I think what Abbas Mirza means is that you should go to "msconfig" and try disabling svchost.exe from there so that it never loads at startup. This way, you aren't disabling it from inside Windows. Instead, you are not enabling it to begin with.

I'd like to make something clear though: svchost.exe is a native Windows process which really should be left on. Is it possible that a virus has attached itself to this file, and that is what is causing the huge cpu load? By nature the program eats a lot of cpu time, but not this much!

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

I concur with techtalk girl. Maybe you guys wanna sign up :-)

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

Let me ask you something. Are you running Disk Keeper? Yes or No you will be surprised by the results if you. Maximum PC did a whole article on Disk Keeper.

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

Hey guys,

I found out the problem to be after searching for about 3 hours that it was the service telephony that was causing the problem. Once I disabled it and restarted the comp and the cpu didn't head back up to 100% anymore. I think this may vary form person to person but when you get a problem like you should first find out wich service is running under the svchost.exe proces and try disabling each service that started under svchost.exe one by one. Eventually you'll kill the service that screwing up. It might take sometime to find that service cause your comp may hang or restart itself etc. But if you keep trying you'll find it. ;D

Goodluck to everyone who has this problem. ;)

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

Jason, thank you for replying with the solution. Hopefully this will help out others in the future. It's really great when people we help respond. Sometimes it feels like it's pointless giving people advice when you never know how it turns out. OK that's just me rambling! Certainly not aimed at you! Thanks again ... And good luck with all your computing!

Re:svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

Doeas anyone have any other solutions? I have the same problem, but have narrowed it down to the "Network Connections" service. This one doesn't let me disable it, and in any case it's vital if you want to use a network.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Robin.

Re: svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

This is my first post. I was searching for a solution to this problem and ended up here. I noticed this problem after removing the blaster worm virus. I thought it might be a variant but I haven't found any other viruses. I am running Diskkeeper but I don't see how THAT could have anything to do with this problem but I am going to do some investigation. Not running the "svchost.exe" file at all isn't a solution because I am running a network. If disabling the Telephony service doesn't work, there is another copy of the file in the "\windows\system\dllcache" directory so I think I am going to copy that over the existing file to see if I have any luck. I am not at my computer now so I can't try any of these suggestions but I will update all of you when I can again.

Re: svchost.exe using 100% cpu!
 

I had the same problem with the svchost.exe network service using 100% of the cpu time for a few minutes when initially started. I'm using Windows XP Home. This happen when I connected to the internet (using DSL) and tried to access it by starting the browser or any other program that tried to use the internet. After what seemed forever, once svchost.exe network service had finished loading whatever it was loading, it was fine from then on for using the internet. For my case I tracked it to having a large HOSTS file. I had a large HOSTS file, which I downloaded from SpyBot and other sites to help block ads, etc. My final HOSTS file was 925 KB. I even tried a smaller 375 KB HOSTS file with out any luck. It wasn't until I used a HOSTS file of 46 KB that the time to connect was returned to a reasonable fast time. I hope this helps someone, since my search of the Internet on this problem didn't find anything.