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Frank43
post May 11 2008, 05:32 PM
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My wife's Toshiba Sat Laptop has developed a very slow startup. I have checked the processes at start up and the CPU usage is at 100% I have removed all programs except the windows from startup and still have the problem? The one process called SVChost.exe is taken 98% What is this?
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Hi Frank43, welcome to G2G.

Try turning off Automatic Updates, see if that makes a difference. You do this by right clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties. Then click on the Automatic Updates tab. Check "Turn off Automatic Updates". Shutdown and reboot, see what happens.

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post May 12 2008, 04:45 PM
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I did that and I did get it back to speed. Thanks for the help
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That's only step one. Now we should try to figure out why it was causing a problem.

There is nothing wrong with having it turned off as long as you do the updates manually once a month, sometime after the 2nd Tuesday release. I have it set to notify me when there are updates available but not download and install. I do that at my convenience, when it suits my needs.


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