Dcomlaunch

scotty365 · 3 Jan 2010 at 11:40

I'm getting heavy CPU usage by svchost.exe (Dcomlaunch) I'm not talented enough to know what this is but its a royal pita.
If I leave to PC running for long enough (a few hours) eventully it starts up - running 50% cpu usage spread across both cores. It slows everything down massively - restarting gets rid of it for so long.
There is a bit of info on this but no definitive answer - can anyone shed some light on this for me? I want to disable it if I can but from what I have read it will cause problems if I do.

Scotty

doggs · 3 Jan 2010 at 12:44

The link in the first reply on here - http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/mi...comlaunch-svchost-plug-play-hi-cpu-usage.html - might help. The rest of the thread is amusing.

scotty365 · 3 Jan 2010 at 13:49

I already read that - I dont have any issues with media player either. Thanks anyways
I'm just using process explorer to see if I can track it down a little further - just have to keep waiting for the bug to come back so its taking a while.

scotty365 · 5 Jan 2010 at 00:01

Just incase anyone was remotely interested I found the problem using Process Explorer

I narrowed it down to a Nokia driver update program and Samsung Studio 3 (which was a failed install and wasnt removed cleanly) Clearly there is a link as both programs are for mobile phones. I just updated the nokia drivers to see if that helps - Not sure how I'm going to deal with the Samsung program as its not supposed to exist!

doggs · 5 Jan 2010 at 00:13

Good to hear you got to the bottom of it.