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Multiple instances of dllhost.exe*32 Com Surrogate killing memory
I am running Windows 7 64 bit premium home edition, 1.34TB HD and 8 GB Memory, IE 11 which I just installed. The last couple of days I've noticed my performance slowing to a crawl. My IE passwords and user names no longer load, Icons in my folders no longer load, the Progress Bar in each folder is continually loading each time I open a folder. I opened Task Manager and found multiple instances of dllhost.exe*32 running, and some with a Memory usage over 200,00k.
I've run TDSSKiller, RKill, Malwarebytes, Hitman, Rogue Killer and Emission in that order to make sure it wasn't a Trojan masking itself as a valid dll, no effect. Reading through the forums I see where a corrupt movie file or extension can cause this. I wanted to do a Restore to an earlier point, but the earliest I can go to is yesterday, and that's when I first started troubleshooting. Last week I loaded Windows Live Movie Maker. I was unable to do an uninstall as there was no uninstall command. I've ran every movie file that I can find in an attempt to isolate it to delete it - no luck. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it. I'm no PC expert, in fact I probably know just enough to be dangerous, so keep that in mind when replying.
One other thing that came to mind after I posted is if I set all my folders to use Icons only, no thumbnails, the problem goes away.
Thanks