Memory leak for process svchost.exe

Hey guys, I seem to be having issues with this particular process on my desktop. svchost.exe keeps increasing the longer I keep my computer open and I end up having to restart every two week or so because it just gets to the point where other programs I have start getting affected - ie. music players will start having songs stutter. Here is how it looks currently:



Services in the process:



Is there any known Windows update where it will resolve this issue? Thanks!

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
A while back now windows updates service was throwing svchost for a loop
Simple solution was to stop the windows update service and see if a couple updates were installed if not manually install them
Just refer to post #2 here for details
Windows Update will not update and I've tried multiple fixes

I checked my installed updates and it does list show that I have KB3020369 and KB3172605 installed already. Should I just turn off the updating service?

The issue seems to stem from this specfic svchost:



So it does seem to be similar to the thread you linked. I'll try to disable what was mentioned in the thread.

Nothing of note from running RAMMAP:



The empty commands under the empty button on the toolbar cleared out the mem usage though. It went from 7gigs to 5 gigs.

ZHPCleaner didn't do much besides clearing some empty folders.

Changed my DNS - will keep it on for a few days and see if it fixes it.