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How do I stop svchost.exe from using 100% of my cpu and up to 300mb memory?
June 14, 2011
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Stop the unnecessarily running services. Download a service managing program, such as, Reginout, and do the task appropriately.
In case you are unlucky enough to not be able to see all running processes in Task Manager, you may need to tick the check box that says “Show processes from all users”.
Then, if the User Account Control dialog box appears, just click on the Continue button.
Once you have been able to see every single process running on your system, the next thing you need to do is to see the real cause of the svchost.exe.
To do this, right click on the troublesome svchost.exe service and click on “Go to Service(s)”.
This will direct you to the Services tab with the corresponding service highlighted. When you have finally found out what actually triggers the svchost.exe that consumes 100% of your CPU, you can look over them carefully.
Then, if you are sure that there are not any other processes that may well be associated with the service, you may right click on it and choose Stop Service.
You need to be very careful about this. In case you happen to stop a service that is essentially needed by Windows 7 to run, chances are you will damage your PC and cause the system to become unstable. Also note that 100% of CPU usage may as well be caused by some other factors such as virus infection or a corrupt registry. Therefore, an antivirus or registry cleaning application may come in handy.