Comments on: How to fix svchost.exe errors and problems with high CPU usage

By: Boobi

Boobi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:12:30 +0000

Thanks a lot…

By: chris

chris — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:44:47 +0000

this was so helpful with my CPU usage, thank you

By: suspect

suspect — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:48:06 +0000

Thank you for the nice explanation of svchost.exe. very useful!

By: Waleed

Waleed — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:59:45 +0000

Hi, I don’t understand the last part, I have like 20 program on the svchost that appear when I hover the mouse, How will I know which one? I tried one to disable and reboot and enable and again reboot, and nothing happened. Please help

By: gauri

gauri — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:29:43 +0000

if you are done with checking your system against viruses,malwares,worms etc and still no sign of them but having a slow speed…then try this option..it has worked for me..i was facing the same problem…of 100% CPU utilization!!..i tried each and everything..nothing seemed to work…then I found a simple solution on net..which says..check your power adopter,it may be faulty and heating your notebook up…i did put my note book on pillows and YES!! it worked..CPU utilization got back to its normal state and my notebook is working much faster!!..it was the heating effect..which was making the speed slower..

By: Gk

Gk — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:38:24 +0000

hello sir

first of all thanks for providing these solutions to us!!…i faced the same problem…speed of my notebook was agonisingly slow..i coudnt figure out..where the hell..problem is!!…but i tried the first method mentioned in this article..AND IT WORKED!!!…really…now my notebook is functioning much faster..i used command prompt to display all of the services run by svchost.exe and disabled the services which aint needed by my notebook…i gave a simple command on the prompt as..tasklist/svc..it WORKS!!…thanks again..!!

By: PBake

PBake — Thu, 27 May 2010 19:07:37 +0000

THANK YOU! I actually bought another new laptop and swapped a hard drive on a second one, trying to ‘fix’ this problem… Via your suggestions and Process Explorer, I was able to figure out that it was the darn HP network device support that was running as a service, that hung up both pc’s. With the help in this article I was able to reserect both laptops – Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:29:42 +0000

Thank you very much for starting me on a path to finally figure out why this darn computer was so slow. I had a svchost.exe running near 100% all the time, but I could not figure out what process it was related to, thanks to you I was able to track it down and fix the issue. Kudos!

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:18:39 +0000

None of this worked for me….I tried just about everything I came across for hours last night (100% CPU under svchost.exe). The last thing I tried was running the free version of “Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware” (I had tried other anti-virus/malware that didn’t find anything up to this point). It found quite a lot the first time through and I ran it a second time for good measure. Everything is back to normal this morning…maybe this will help if none of the other recommendations are working for some poor soul out there!

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:21:40 +0000

Thanks a lot for this info!! It’s absolutely great. I’m not a techie person, but you walked me through it step by step. Apparently, there was a Windows process that I didn’t need running inside svchost.exe that was causing the high CPU. Disabled it and everything works fine.

By: Jerry Curtis

Jerry Curtis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:22:43 +0000

Kathy,

The EXCEL.EXE function should not be running UNLESS you have opened an Excel Document. [Or, at least it is not doing so on my computer]. If you are not working on an Excel document and the EXCEL.EXE Function is running, for a temporary fix, simply highlight it and “End Process”. This will end that process but as a precaution, make sure you are not working on an excel document for when you end the process, it will not save any work done. I would look at the processes on the task manager and see if it is present. If not, open an excel document and check the processor again and it should be running. When you close the document, the process should then stop. If not, that is your problem. Then you must determine why it is running continuously. I would suspect something in the start-up arrangement. Good Luck.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:18:25 +0000

This is great advice – thanks. I’m having a problem with excel.exe showing up in task manager, using up all of the cpu, even if Excel is not open. Do you have any suggestions. Thanks.

By: Elmo

Elmo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:36:27 +0000

I was also having the high CPU svchost.exe problem, but this solved it. Thanks!

By: hey_gluppy

hey_gluppy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:09:12 +0000

Thanks a bunch! This article really helped me in fixing the high cpu usage due to svchost. it is easy to understand and the processes are very clear explained.

By: namcess

namcess — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:44:59 +0000

I suffer from svchost.exe and cpu 100% usage problem. It’s very useful article for me. thnx