[zmookie]

on my system (Gateway GT5476E)there are 3 svchost processes that burst every 4 seconds or so. Svchost viewer shows :


my HDD is cranking away and is almost never still.
I have run malwarebytes and am clean
I also have Mcafee
The bursts spike CPU usage to 25-40%

any ideas?
Thanks

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What are the processes running under each svchost.exe process that bursts?
Have you tried the free program Process Explorer to examine the threads running under each process?
It's available here: http://www.microsoft...ssExplorer.mspx
Right click on the offending process, select Properties, then select the Thread tab.

[usasma]

What are the processes running under each svchost.exe process that bursts?
Have you tried the free program Process Explorer to examine the threads running under each process?
It's available here: http://www.microsoft...ssExplorer.mspx
Right click on the offending process, select Properties, then select the Thread tab.

[zmookie]

i am sorry for not being clear....
The image in my original post shows the svchost culprits and the services running under each

[zmookie]

i believe i have solved the problem

I disabled a wireless NIC that was not connected to my wireless network (i am connected via rj47). once i disabled it the problem was gone...i enabled it and connected to the wireless network and the problem is still gone

this wasnt an instance of making many changes and not knowing what worked...it was a direct result of disabling the NIC. fwiw this problem had been occuring for weeks

[usasma]

Good work! I'd suspect that the driver loaded into memory was corrupted somehow, and disabling/reenabling it somehow caused it to reset itself. But I've always said that networking was really just magic!