svchost.exe CPU usage

I've attached a screenshot from ProcessExplorer.

Notice the high activity svchost.exe

I had just closed another application, and this lasted for a few minutes. It then went to zero.

How do I determine what is actually going on here? I have Dual Core 3ghz & 4GB RAM running 7RC with no anti-virus.

Well, Jay... yours was nowhere near as bad as mine. Over the past week or 2 I've noticed the SVCHOST process using between 50%-100% of both of my cores on my 2.9 GHz dual core 64 X2 keeping me from doing much else so I've been toying with it... painfully, for over a week. Disabling the SVCHOST process in it's entirety would normally stop explorer from responding, kill my audio or drop my network, however it would also free up my CPU usage. This wasn't all too helpful since I had lost my functionality. I noticed different services eating CPU's up but found it's either impossible to stop some of them on their own, or doing so does not free up any CPU (not sure why). After all this time I've gone ahead and simply removed my PC from the homegroup it was in, rebooted and ta-da! I'm now idling around 3%-5% CPU usage.
I hope this helps someone out there and I hope if it does that you don't need to use a homegroup. If anyone has more info on this please reply so I can better understand why this was eating up my CPU.

well after a lot of trial and error, i concluded the issue was my Nvidia graphics card. So I replaced it with a lower end, cool running, ATI card and now I have no problems. Basically, the Nvidia graphics drivers, whether from MSFT or Nvidia, official or beta, just caused major bottlenecking in Windows7.

Dravus said:

Well, Jay... yours was nowhere near as bad as mine. Over the past week or 2 I've noticed the SVCHOST process using between 50%-100% of both of my cores on my 2.9 GHz dual core 64 X2 keeping me from doing much else so I've been toying with it... painfully, for over a week. Disabling the SVCHOST process in it's entirety would normally stop explorer from responding, kill my audio or drop my network, however it would also free up my CPU usage. This wasn't all too helpful since I had lost my functionality. I noticed different services eating CPU's up but found it's either impossible to stop some of them on their own, or doing so does not free up any CPU (not sure why). After all this time I've gone ahead and simply removed my PC from the homegroup it was in, rebooted and ta-da! I'm now idling around 3%-5% CPU usage.
I hope this helps someone out there and I hope if it does that you don't need to use a homegroup. If anyone has more info on this please reply so I can better understand why this was eating up my CPU.

svchost is a generic windows process which may be used by any number of applications and drivers. The link that Airbot provided earlier is to a tool you can use to analyze the specific process that is using svchost - Whichever application/driver is the source process would be the cause of the issue.

Hey guys. svchost has been a major pain lately.

upon win7 startup SVChost will use more and more of my cpu and ram until it locks up. If i end the problematic svchost process before it locks up the computer is functional, but the hotkeys on my keyboard, such as volume, don't work. Upon rare occasion svchost starts back up, spikes my CPU performance then, then fixes itself and I get my keyboard functions back!
it's annoying =P

thanks for any help if you've got it.

oh,
q9550, 4gb ddr2 800, gtx 260 core216, 680i mb chipset

randin said:

Hey guys. svchost has been a major pain lately.

upon win7 startup SVChost will use more and more of my cpu and ram until it locks up. If i end the problematic svchost process before it locks up the computer is functional, but the hotkeys on my keyboard, such as volume, don't work. Upon rare occasion svchost starts back up, spikes my CPU performance then, then fixes itself and I get my keyboard functions back!
it's annoying =P

thanks for any help if you've got it.

oh,
q9550, 4gb ddr2 800, gtx 260 core216, 680i mb chipset

You should consider starting your own thread. It's possible to troubleshoot this sort of thing fairly effectively.

G'day all,
Found a solution that works for me.
The problem was a left over svchost.exe file for a Visual C++ installation in conjunction with MS Office.
Offending file was found at c:\user\...\Appdata\Roaming\dll\svchost.exe.
Deleted it, and now no problems.
Hope it helps at least some of the situations.

I bought a new laptop with SU3500 and 4G memory. I found CPU usage is very high after I pick up the small tool in Win7 to show CPU and Memory Usage. I update the Graphic Card driver. It can not solve the problem. Svchost.exe could be ended. But I do not wanna end it everytime after restart my computer.
Is there any solution?
Thank you.

I don't see why this thread is marked "Solved"...

My cpu gets quite hot, so I have a fan enhancer installed, and I've been monitoring cpu usage and temperature closely. Yesterday my svchost started taking 50% of the cpu, and it's killing my system... It runs at exactly 49-51% for hours at a time, sometimes stopping for a few minutes, regardless of what I'm doing.

I've installed Win7 about 2 weeks ago and everything used to be fine.
The only things that changed yesterday: I installed Spybot, and Foxit Reader (careful not to install the toolbar etc).

Attached are screenshots of the offending services, and a hijackthis log... My antivirus is Avira.

What else can I do?

Thanks in advance for any advice...


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Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 14:31:08, on 17/07/10
Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 6.01.3504)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.7600.16385)

Running processes:
C:\Windows\system32\taskhost.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe
C:\Program Files\SigmaTel\C-Major Audio\WDM\sttray.exe
C:\Program Files\DellTPad\Apoint.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPointP\SetPoint.exe
C:\Program Files\Babylon\Babylon-Pro\Babylon.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe
C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe
C:\Program Files\I8kfanGUI\I8kfanGUI.exe
C:\Users\AnnotatedSnark\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe
C:\Program Files\DellTPad\ApMsgFwd.exe
C:\Program Files\DellTPad\Apntex.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\LogiShrd\KHAL3\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
C:\Program Files\DellTPad\HidFind.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe
C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.bin
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Windows\system32\SearchFilterHost.exe
C:\Program Files\Total Commander\TOTALCMD.EXE
C:\Systools\hijack\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = Bing
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = MSN.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = Bing
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = Bing
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = MSN.com
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
O2 - BHO: SkypeIEPluginBHO - {AE805869-2E5C-4ED4-8F7B-F1F7851A4497} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
O2 - BHO: Java(tm) Plug-In 2 SSV Helper - {DBC80044-A445-435b-BC74-9C25C1C588A9} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\jp2ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [avgnt] "C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avgnt.exe" /min
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SigmatelSysTrayApp] %ProgramFiles%\SigmaTel\C-Major Audio\WDM\sttray.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Apoint] C:\Program Files\DellTPad\Apoint.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [EvtMgr6] C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPointP\SetPoint.exe /launchGaming
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Babylon Client] C:\Program Files\Babylon\Babylon-Pro\Babylon.exe -AutoStart
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Sidebar] C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [uTorrent] "C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [i8kfangui] C:\Program Files\I8kfanGUI\I8kfanGUI.exe /startup
O4 - Startup: Dropbox.lnk = C:\Users\AnnotatedSnark\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox.exe
O4 - Startup: Logitech . Product Registration.lnk.disabled
O4 - Startup: OpenOffice.org 3.2.lnk = C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\program\quickstart.exe
O4 - Startup: Winamp.lnk = C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: Translate with &Babylon - res://C:\Program Files\Babylon\Babylon-Pro\Utils\BabylonIEPI.dll/Translate.htm
O9 - Extra button: Skype add-on for Internet Explorer - {898EA8C8-E7FF-479B-8935-AEC46303B9E5} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Skype add-on for Internet Explorer - {898EA8C8-E7FF-479B-8935-AEC46303B9E5} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\nlaapi.dll
O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\napinsp.dll
O11 - Options group: [INTERNATIONAL] International
O13 - Gopher Prefix:
O18 - Protocol: skype-ie-addon-data - {91774881-D725-4E58-B298-07617B9B86A8} - C:\Program Files\Skype\Toolbars\Internet Explorer\skypeieplugin.dll
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O20 - Winlogon Notify: LBTWlgn - c:\program files\common files\logishrd\bluetooth\LBTWlgn.dll
O23 - Service: Andrea ST Filters Service (AESTFilters) - Andrea Electronics Corporation - C:\Windows\system32\aestsrv.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Scheduler (AntiVirSchedulerService) - Avira GmbH - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\sched.exe
O23 - Service: Avira AntiVir Guard (AntiVirService) - Avira GmbH - C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\avguard.exe
O23 - Service: FLEXnet Licensing Service - Macrovision Europe Ltd. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\FLEXnet Publisher\FNPLicensingService.exe
O23 - Service: Logitech Bluetooth Service (LBTServ) - Logitech, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\LogiShrd\Bluetooth\lbtserv.exe
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\qwave.dll,-1 (QWAVE) - Unknown owner - %windir%\system32\svchost.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: SBSD Security Center Service (SBSDWSCService) - Safer Networking Ltd. - C:\Program Files\Spybot\SDWinSec.exe
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\seclogon.dll,-7001 (seclogon) - Unknown owner - %windir%\system32\svchost.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: SigmaTel Audio Service (STacSV) - IDT, Inc. - C:\Windows\system32\STacSV.exe
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\Wat\WatUX.exe,-601 (WatAdminSvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\Wat\WatAdminSvc.exe
O23 - Service: @%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe,-101 (WMPNetworkSvc) - Unknown owner - %PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Media Player\wmpnetwk.exe (file missing)