svchost...

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:00 am

well, my computer is idle... and two svchost processes are running at 20-30% -_- wtf? this is a fresh install of XP pro. i ran norton with the latest virus defs and also a spayware scan. anyone here know what's up with this?

Pwolf

madmag9999 · Post by **madmag9999** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:10 am

hmmmmmmm. well i didnt know what svchost was so i googled for it and found this. aperently svchost is somekinda dynamik link library that helps IE run or something. idk it was kinda confuseing. maybe u will get something from that thread. the person asking for help seems to have a similar problem and the thread has alot of info on it. hope this helps

aznfs · Post by **aznfs** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 12:50 pm

yea word of advice dont end the task

cause if u do the computer tell u it will self destruct in 1 minute

i think last time my computer was idle and svchost took up 99% cpu and i ended the task... silly me

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 3:17 pm

i figured out what was causing it through turning off services one by one... not sue what this service does exactly but my computer seems fine without it... the service is the SSPD Discovery Service, which according to the discription is to discovery UPnP devices on the network... :\ don't need that anyway, lol

Pwolf

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:27 pm

Services that normally take up only 0.01% of your computer's attention will take up a lot more on a really crappy system. What's your hardware?

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:59 pm

p4 2.8ghz :\

Pwolf