Why is Svchost.exe running so many times?

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:45

Im having problems when shutting down or restarting my pc.. its down to an application but Im not sure which one. I have noticed though that the proccess Svchost.exe is running 7 times.. this cant be right?

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Can a mod resize the pic.. sorry.

If you cant resize it yourself, then just link it.

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bledd · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:48

many services run under the same svchost

remove whatever program you're using to monitor that, can be sure that its probably slowing your pc down!

just use taskmanager or process explorer from sysinternals

process explorer will tell you which services depend on which svchost file

start, run, services.msc

stop and disable services you don't need..

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:50

Thanks I'll try that out.

MR_Punk · 14 Apr 2006 at 11:51

holy huge picture batman!

I had the same problem and just did what bledd. said and its working fine!

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Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:05

I had a look but really havent a clue what services to disable or enable.

marc2003 · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:29

Jimbo said:
I had a look but really havent a clue what services to disable or enable.

i wouldn't bother. my windows is heavily tweaked and i still have 5 instances of svchost running.

you can read the ms blurb here....

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

bledd · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:34

marc2003 said:
i wouldn't bother. my windows is heavily tweaked and i still have 5 instances of svchost running.

you can read the ms blurb here....

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

but still the more services you remove, the more ammount of memory and cpu is free'd up by each svchost

have a look here

http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP Services.htm

or just read what each service says in the details..

Zefan · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:35

Stopping one of them made something go "ROFL" last time, so I just don't bother anymore.

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:38

I know I just treid to end all the svchost proccesses in task manager and it told my the system was re starting in 30 seconds lol.

marc2003 · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:40

bledd. said:
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if i disable any more services than i have already, i get errors in my event viewer and that is something i do not like..... </geek>

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Cheers for that info though Bled, interesting I'll have a read.

Ev0 · 14 Apr 2006 at 13:35

Yeah I've changed the system so only the services I want/need are started and still have 5 instances.

MR_Punk · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:24

you might have some spyware in there, you done a scan?

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Jimbo · 14 Apr 2006 at 14:35

Ok yeah I have done a scan and the system is clean but.. I have found the proccess that is causing all the headaches. It is DLLML.exe and it is from Creative Labs. It is crippling my restarts/shutdowns I'm having to wait 4 to 5 mins until the system will respond.

I found out this was causing it thanks to system mechanic, and some proccess elimanation.

Now how do I get rid of it? is it wise to disable it full time?

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/DLLML/

Edit:

I have Hijack this somewhere that would do the trick yes?

Bytw

i want it stopped. its not in services.msc, and its not in msconfig. it might be in the registry, but i hate having to fiddle with it unless i know 100% for sure that im getting rid of it properly

bledd · 14 Apr 2006 at 15:20

hijackthis would do it yes

Ev0 · 14 Apr 2006 at 17:51

It's either in your startup folder or more likely the run section of the registry, at a guess..