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

By: Wagdy

Wagdy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:31:45 +0000

I had this problem ( high svchost.exe usage with windows update) after searching web, the best solution was that, go to microsoft windows update site and change settings to windows update instead of microsoft update then turn on your automatic update. My laptop works fine now

By: Milen

Milen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:19:00 +0000

What if the problem is not in the CPU usage. When i start the computer PF usage is at 200 MB and starts rising untill it fill up all of the RAM memory which is 2 GB. SVCHOST.EXE is constantly rising and the computer is working slower and slower! How to fix this problem?

Pleas help me

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:13 +0000

3 to 4 times a day a window shows up saying:

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Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close.
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If I close it, my PC blocks in such a way I need to do a hard reset. I f I click on Debug, it blocks after a little while. I need to close every program before clicking on any of the 2 buttons referred, before I shutdown, restart, hoping not to see the message again, what can I do?
Thanks in advance.

By: Jake O'Bayne

Jake O'Bayne — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:44:31 +0000

Dear Sir,

I have been trying to identify which service is not working only to find that this particular svchost process (that is using 100% of my CPU) does not have ANY services running under it. In task manager there is no “Go to service” option when I right-click on it. In command prompt, there stands only “N/A” in the “services” column for this process. In Process Explorer there are no services listed in the pop-up for this svchost process, either. It runs in Windows/System32 and everything else seems not at all different from other svchost processes running (I compared their properties in process explorer).

When I kill this process it restarts in about a minute and after about 10 minutes starts eating up 100% again.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance

By: Bratman91

Bratman91 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:33:34 +0000

Simply the best descriptionn of svchost.exe and fixing its problems I have seen. Well done and thanks.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:54:48 +0000

I have a unique problem, my cpu shows 0%, I try to open My Computer to browse the C drive and the window opens but it is blank. I go back to the task mgr and it still shows 0%. I have to manually shutdown the laptop to get it to turn off. System Idle Process always shows 99%. Any ideas why this is happening and what I could check for? Already scoured the pc for viruses and what not.

Brand new laptop with plenty of RAM. Saw nothing abnormal in msconfig. Repaired registry issues and cleaned out pc with Ccleaner. Defragmented, ran chkdsk- came back good. Laptop seems to run okay when I disconnect the powersupply but this too is intermittent. How do you troubleshoot a pc that is locking up with Zero (0) percent CPU usage???

By: KayakAngler

KayakAngler — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:25:32 +0000

I had svchost.exe warnings from my antivirus program, and my CPU use was very high. Scans with various AV programs couldn’t fix the problem.

Spybot Search & Destroy eventually did. TIP: Always make sure you can undo any fix your anti-spyware program makes. Spybot’s Recovery feature makes it easy — I’m glad because I had to undo one of the changes to keep my PC from running super slow.

Hope this helps! Also, the SysInternal programs Process Explorer and AutoRuns are fantastic diagnostic tools and should be in your toolkit.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:31:11 +0000

I have Process Explorer, and I did find the process(es) that were affecting my system. However, I get an error message when I try to use the WindowsUpdate 3.0 upgrade installation. It errors, gives a hex code, then shuts down. I really need help with this. It affects my gaming, my startup programs, my wireless internet and networking…pretty much everything is affected. PLEASE HELP!
Thanks.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:36:36 +0000

Thank you — running Process Explorer enabled me to identify and kill the issue after spending several hours trying to figure this out. Appreciate the help.

By: akishore

akishore — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:55:16 +0000

Brian, the HP Network service might show up in MSCONFIG under the Startup tab. You can try to uncheck it there and hopefully it will not eat up 100% of your CPU. You can also read my previous post on how to use MSCONFIG.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:39:16 +0000

Excellent info. My personal CPU hog is an HP Network service. When I try to manage it, changing from Automatic (Delayed Start) to Manual or Disable, it does change, but after 10 seconds or so the process restarts itself, no matter what I do. Any thoughts?

By: Get detailed information on hidden Windows processes

Get detailed information on hidden Windows processes — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:41:45 +0000

[...] you ever gone to the Task Manager in Windows and clicked on the Process tab only to see that svchost.exe is taking up 100% of your CPU? Well, unfortunately that doesn’t help you figure out which program in Windows is actually using [...]

By: Pranay

Pranay — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:04:32 +0000

Thanks a lot… It was really a great help to me.Very helpful topic.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:17:17 +0000

While installing Oracle, I had to stop several services that were interfering with the installation. I actually had to disable a few. The install was successful, however, I have returned to re-enable these services, and get errors when trying to start them “Error, 1068, the dependendency service or group failed to start”. In other instances, I cannot even access the Properties of these services to re-configure.

I also notice that any window that I attempt to minimize actually closes instead. Any help will be appreciated to sort this one out.

By: RichS

RichS — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:30:24 +0000

A big thanks!!!! You had the info that was needed to remove this big problem. As some of the others, it was the HP Ntework software that was the problem. This was on my wireless laptop and the software wasn’t needed

Thanks Again
Rich