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Vista Svchost.exe

Started by Kishore13 , Jan 24 2009 10:22 AM

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Kishore13

Posted 24 January 2009 - 10:22 AM

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Hi can anyone explain to me why svchost.exe is running alot. And how to minimize the memory usage on this service. Screenies included. My laptop is lagging a lot because of this.
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Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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Quackers88

Posted 24 January 2009 - 11:21 AM

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svchost is the host service for Windows Services. It is quite normal for multiple entries to be running (12 even!). It is quite normal for one of these processes to take up a lot of resources, in the short term.