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svchost process goes wild
I can’t go over the whole story here as it would take a book with the fiasco it has been at every step, but I’ll give some of this. This is a dell n5110 laptop, W7 64 bit, 4GB ram. I bought it with a bad screen and I am not absolutely sure that it worked properly when I got it. It seemed to but I went right to doing what I wanted in programs and changes for my own use. Along the line on that it started to max the ram and I found a svchost process that starts somewhat randomly and of course pretty much disables the pc. It may not max the ram out as easily or may take a little longer to do that as I upgraded to 4GB recently, but it still seems to slow it way down and I have never seen something like this. One thing that for sure will start it is running an update check. That is when I first found it. It can vary a lot how much ram running that uses, but it is always awfully high. I just ran that and it never came to an end in about 30 minutes!! I had seen some web info on some kind of update that can cause this and windows had installed that, it is update agent 7.6.7600.320. But now that should not be in the pc as I state later on.
I was ultimately going to do a dell-less clean install, but I wanted to fix the svc host just to figure it out and to see if maybe I caused it somehow. I did many malware scans. A Malwarebyte helper was mostly just mad I had done so many scans, other helpers have not been able to fix it. No one seems to want to really investigate the actual process to understand it for repair. I am too old to spend what is left of my life on one pc and so after a lot of miscellaneous problems I have now re-installed W7. That was going along and while installing drivers pretty soon goofy things were going on again and lo and behold the svchost problem is still here!! When I installed I even let the installer format the old dell partitions so I would be sure they had nothing that would cause any problems, so that should be clean. I am now stopping any further work with this just in case someone wants me to do some kind of different install process again. It seems like there must be some way to find what this process is and stop it. There are about 150 services when I expand that svchost process! Can someone tell me how to find out what this process is that goes wild and how to fix it? Thanks.
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