The consuming of RAM

On start up,70% of ram is being used by my system.From taskmanager,i came to know that one of svchost processes(svchost processes->go to services->windows update) is comsuming app.1.5gb of ram.I came to know that windows update service "WUAUSERV" is causing trouble.I made startup type disabled and...

What I'm doing is making room on what is now an external hard drive (used to be C drive on my old computer). I've already transferred 11 gig of download files I want to keep, to a flash drive. It took 5 hours to do it. The point here is, make room for a backup of the Win 7 computer on the external...

I have a laptop with a 4gb RAM.. suddenly the laptop got slow..so slow that i was'nt able to move my cursor...i saw the processes list and found that 'svchost.exe' was using exorbitantly high amout of memory...i cannot post the screenshot of the task manager..as my system has become unresponsive......

Hi all, I've got a Dell Precision M6400 laptop running 64 bit Win7 SP1. Hardware wise, it has a Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9100 running a 2.26 Mhz, 6 gB RAM, 350 gB main drive and a 500 gB secondary drive. Rounding out the goodies is a Nvidia Quadro FX 2700 M graphics card. I've updated the...

My PC has started running very slowly and I have narrowed this down to SVCHost running at 100% cpu in the task manager. Using Process Explorer I can see that this process is hosting Power, PlugnPlay and DCOMLaunch services. I have run several anti-virus applications including malwarebytes and...