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Hi,

Can any one please guide about how to Stop svchost.exe as it is consuming memory. You can see the process info in the attached image.

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A short, practical addendum to the replies from , , and : multiple svchost instances can be normal, but indiscriminately killing them risks stopping important services. The useful next step is targeted identification and safe remediation rather than blind termination.

Basic triage (no GUI required): confirm the svchost binary location and map each svchost process to the services it hosts. From an elevated command prompt, the following quickly shows which services run under each svchost PID and where the executable lives:

tasklist /svc
tasklist /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe" /svc
wmic process where name="svchost.exe" get ProcessId,ExecutablePath,CommandLine

If the executable is not in C:\Windows\System32 (or C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on 64-bit systems), treat it as suspicious and run a full offline malware scan. Process Explorer (Sysinternals) provides an easy GUI alternative: open the svchost process, view the Services tab to see service names, and check the image path and command line.

When a specific service is identified as the resource hog, stop it gracefully and investigate (Services MMC or net stop <servicename>). Set startup to Manual only if the service is nonessential; do not disable core system services. Common transient causes include update activity or background transfers, and large user applications (as pointed out in the screenshot) can also make svchost look worst by comparison.

If a service leaks memory or CPU after updates and restarts, look for vendor/Windows updates or patches. If malware is suspected, prioritize an up-to-date AV/anti-malware scan and verify the file signature via Properties. Stopping the correct service, patching, and scanning will resolve most real problems without destabilizing the system.

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Member Avatar for cohen

i take it, that computer it is a school computer, correct??

Because i have the same problem, i'm using a school laptop and it does the same thing....

so it is normal....

now sure how to fix it though....

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It is normal activity. Shut it/them down at your own risk.

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Looking at your attachment it seems to me that svchost.exe is NOT consuming that much CPU's...You are showing 5 instances of svchost.exe, exactly what I am showing on my computer right now, and the total CPU amount for all 5 is 18,060.. Not much really.

Your big users are the following;
2 instances of Internet Explorer; 55,868K and 64,000K
Yahoo Pager at 15,876 K
MSNMessenger at 13,516K

If you've ever taken a look at the Services section in control panel you might notice that there are a Lot of services required by Windows. If every single service ran under a single svchost.exe instance, a failure in one might bring down all of Windows… so they are separated out.

Those services are organized into logical groups, and then a single svchost.exe instance is created for each group. For instance, one svchost.exe instance runs the 3 services related to the firewall. Another svchost.exe instance might run all the services related to the user interface, and so on.

So as crunchie said:It is normal activity. Shut it/them down at your own risk.

I would try shutting down some of those others first.

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