Anyone know what this is and why is it using so much of my cpu resourses.

The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services part of the registry to construct a list of services that it must load. Multiple instances of Svchost.exe can run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services. Therefore, separate services can run, depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This grouping of services permits better control and easier debugging.

google it theres quite a pagies to read over.

[Edited on 26/6/06 by graememk]

.....has that helped?

It may be a virus as some pleb created one like this. Run adaware, ccleaner and a good virus scanner. All free, just google for them.

You may want to edit the registry, as svchost takes a lot of information from there, and if its full of junk it can slow things down.

hth.

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Originally posted by joneh
It may be a virus as some pleb created one like this. Run adaware, ccleaner and a good virus scanner. All free, just google for them.

You may want to edit the registry, as svchost takes a lot of information from there, and if its full of junk it can slow things down.

hth.

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