Slow Pc high core usage

I don't know but recently I am facing this wierd issue since a few days. See screenshots below





As you can see that the process svchost.exe is using way too much memory and you can also see in the second screenshot that all my cores at being used intermittently at the highest capacity when this happens my computer kind of hangs up for a few seconds although I have about 18 GB ram everything halts or even moving the cursor become very slow can some one please help me or guide me as to what can be causing this issue. I have not downloaded, installed or changed anything as far as I know. Plz help

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Yep it's been fairly common now days sadly enough :/
I reinstalled and finally got rid of svchost.netsvcs causing 50%++ cpu usage

What were the last round of successful windows updates ?

I too have this problem, however I can still use windows update to successfully download and install updates, but periodically WU (using servhost.exe netservcs) will start churning for up to an hour doing who knows what, and then will turn off again...usually happens once a day. (I'm guessing that it is downloading or installing the MSE definition update that usually occurs once a day or so.

I was going to update the WU client with KB3138612 (march 2016) but since the situation I have is only a nuisance I loath to introduce any other issues with a change like this.

What's your opinion on updating the WU client ThrashZone?

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Yep it's been fairly common now days sadly enough :/
I reinstalled and finally got rid of svchost.netsvcs causing 50%++ cpu usage

What were the last round of successful windows updates ?

I haven't updated since November 2015 as its a pain in the royal behind to look for updates related to Windows 10 getting installed so they are just sitting in the update list since then

whs said:

What happens if you kill the process.

I killed the process and voila it went back to normal so I guess killing it at the moment seems like the best option for me until I plan to really update windows without the windows 10 crap lurking in the shadows

Layback Bear said:

This could also be a problem in my opinion. Two anti virus programs.

From kufr System Specs.

Antivirus Emsisoft Anti-Malware, Eset Smart Security, MSE

Nopes have been using them both since 4 years now and never faced this issue before.