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SVCHOST.EXE(netsvc) taking up all memory on a freshly formatted system
Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I have ran into a problem and would like to ask for some help.
I help around my office when computers go bad, and diagnose and fix. But this one has me stumped.
A lady needed some help yesterday with a very slow and laggy computer (it was literally 30 seconds behind on anything you tried to do). Well, I opened up task manager and the memory usage was 100%. The cpu usage was normal. I see that the svchost.exe (netsvc) is the culprit, but couldn't figure out how to get it to stop. We are really busy, so my boss just said give her a different computer and format that one and put all of our software back on it.
Well this morning I formatted, installed Windows 7 and stepped away to lunch. When I returned, it was exactly the same. On the desktop of a fresh format, nothing installed, the memory usage is 100% with the same exact culprit.
Could this be a hardware issue of any sort? I did a memory scan and it said it was ok. This is a Dell tower with built in NIC. Could it be going out? I wouldn't think so since the internet works fine (just very unusable due to slowness).
Any help would be greatly appreciated it. If any more info is needed I will be glad to give whatever is need. Thank you all!