Problems with "SVCHOST.EXE"

[Jimbo]

Hello.

Ive got a small problem.

About 3mins after login, my computer gets very slow and un reactive, and my computer makes a hard drive (searching sound), this lasts for 3mins. I have found the cause of the process which is causing this, it is the "SVCHOST.EXE".

Any help?

James

[Gunny04]

I have about six of those running as I look at mine.... They are normal on all XP computers I've had (3 now)

Gunny (My computer also is a little sluggish after booting even though NOTHING but the card reader and internet turn on)

[Politically Incorrect]

I would recommend running a full virus and spyware scan to start.
Is that showing as capital letters in device manager? if so may be a virus as some use that .

I have about 8 "svchost.exe" running at any given time as Gunny stated it is Windows processes and I noticed that Visual Basic 2005 seems to be the cause of at least 3 of them but none of them cause my pc to slow.

[justpassingthrough]

This sounds like a scan being performed. Svchost.exe is used by Windows to launch a combination of apllications and services at once. It is a normal function of the process. If you have already run virus and spyware scans and they have come up clean I would try something else.

Are you from Europe?

If so, try disabling automatic updates from Microsoft in the control panel and see if the problem stops. If it does then you are dealing with a bug in the Microsoft Automatic Update system. From what I read it affects systems in Europe. I do not know if Microsoft issued a fix for it however if you find it to be the cause i would manually go to Microsoft Update and update the system and see if it fixes the problem.

[DizZa]

Svchost.exe contains lots of background services. Go start--->run--->type 'services.msc' without quotes--->press enter--->google running services then change the start up type of the ones not needed or are causing a slow computer.

Automatic means it will start up when the computer is first booted.

Manual means it will start up when needede (I think)

Disabled means it cannot and willnot start up.

Oh, and you will always have multiple instances of it running, perfectly normal as each one contains diferant groups of services.

Hope this helps

[Keep It Simple]

Hello.

Ive got a small problem.

About 3mins after login, my computer gets very slow and un reactive, and my computer makes a hard drive (searching sound), this lasts for 3mins. I have found the cause of the process which is causing this, it is the "SVCHOST.EXE".

Any help?

James

This is not an uncommon problem.
There might be an app that installed itself

[therealzebraman]

Is it SVCHost or SCVHost? SCVHost is indeed a virus, but SVCHost is just a windows process.

[Mictheslik]

Yes, I had SCVHost and had to do a system restore to get rid of it

.mic

[ubntfp]

AS I read this post I have 6 svchost.exe's running!!

3 are under SYSTEM
2 are Network Service
1 is Local service.

They are all lower case and always seem to be there!

I dont know why they are there and I am running 47 processes just being online with AOL

[DizZa]

AS I read this post I have 6 svchost.exe's running!!

3 are under SYSTEM
2 are Network Service
1 is Local service.

They are all lower case and always seem to be there!

I dont know why they are there and I am running 47 processes just being online with AOL

I am running 5 SVCHOSTs. Anyway, each SVHOST.exe is a group of services for your computer. To disable some go start--->run--->services.msc then disable ones that aint needed. You can search the internet to find out which ones you can shut down.

Do you also have uppercase SVCHOSTS running?