Running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Pavilion dv6233se. I started to notice recently that a particular instance of svchost.exe (Service Host) was taking up an abnormal amount of RAM. Once I restart, it uses about 30mb and then climbs up to 100mb+. Sometimes Windows even shuts down after a minute because a critical system process ended. Any ideas?
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Module Name Path Size
SHELL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 8482816
xpsp2res.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 2904064
msi.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 2875392
AcGenral.DLL C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\ 1875968
ole32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 1298432
comctl32.dll C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls 1060864
kernel32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 1003520
COMRes.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 806912
USERENV.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 733184
ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 720896
ADVAPI32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 634880
comctl32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 630784
USER32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 593920
RPCRT4.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 593920
OLEAUT32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 569344
CLBCATQ.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 520192
SHLWAPI.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 483328
rpcss.dll c:\WINDOWS\system32\ 409600
msvcrt.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 360448
hnetcfg.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 360448
GDI32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 290816
mswsock.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 258048
UxTheme.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 229376
WINMM.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 184320
WLDAP32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 180224
rsaenh.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 163840
DNSAPI.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 159744
ShimEng.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 155648
IMM32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 118784
iphlpapi.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 102400
WS2_32.dll c:\WINDOWS\system32\ 94208
MSACM32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 86016
Secur32.dll c:\WINDOWS\system32\ 69632
wshtcpip.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 32768
WS2HELP.dll c:\WINDOWS\system32\ 32768
winrnr.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 32768
VERSION.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 32768
svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 24576
rasadhlp.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ 24576
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