Does anybody know what this service is and why it runs when opening some games?

[MATTHEWFOXALL]

 

 

I haven't downloaded anything recently or even been to any strange websites just gamed like normal than noticed this last night did a full windows virus scan to be sure, It said everything was clean, should i still be worried?

[Lurick]

svchost is basically a windows process that runs for a number of different reasons, there could be dozens of them running at any given time doing any number of things from indexing to volume management to video processing etc.

[MATTHEWFOXALL]

6 hours ago, Lurick said:

svchost is basically a windows process that runs for a number of different reasons, there could be dozens of them running at any given time doing any number of things from indexing to volume management to video processing etc.

is there away to locate where this file is stored just to be sure this is a microsoft process ?

 

[Lurick]

4 minutes ago, MATTHEWFOXALL said:

is there away to locate where this file is stored just to be sure this is a microsoft process ?

 

It's a mask for various processes, but if you want to find the svchost.exe file it's located in C:\Windows iirc.

[Mark Kaine]

4 minutes ago, MATTHEWFOXALL said:

is there away to locate where this file is stored just to be sure this is a microsoft process ?

 

Taskmanager> right click on process > open file Location 

6 hours ago, Lurick said:

svchost is basically a windows process that runs for a number of different reasons, there could be dozens of them running at any given time doing any number of things from indexing to volume management to video processing etc.

Yeah, but why is it in the sound mixer? That isn't normal at all, maybe a specific game?

[Lurick]

Just now, Mark Kaine said:

Taskmanager> right click on process > open file Location 

Yeah, but why is it in the sound mixer? That isn't normal at all, maybe a specific game?

Windows sounds and the like I believe trigger it.

[MATTHEWFOXALL]

is there a way for me to remove it from the volume mixer ?

 

[Mark Kaine]

9 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Windows sounds and the like I believe trigger it.

Hmm, I don't know, I never saw this (its just called "system sounds"?)

 

 

6 minutes ago, MATTHEWFOXALL said:

is there a way for me to remove it from the volume mixer ?

 

Only by removing whatever triggers it. 

Might be discord... disable discord, restart pc, make sure discord isn't running,  check if the process is still there...

 

[Lurick]

Just now, Mark Kaine said:

Hmm, I don't know, I never saw this.

Only by removing whatever triggers it. 

Might be discord... disable discord, restart pc, make sure discord isn't running,  check if the process is still there...

 

I mean it could be any number of things from the HyperX audio service to Discord to anything else running that could trigger sounds.

[MATTHEWFOXALL]

i cant seem to find it in task manager btw

 

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, MATTHEWFOXALL said:

i cant seem to find it in task manager btw

 

It runs as Service Host: [stuff]

It always points to: C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe

Just a few examples:

[Mark Kaine]

1 minute ago, MATTHEWFOXALL said:

i cant seem to find it in task manager btw

 

it should be there... (like 100%, windows can't run without this process afaik)

 

Yeah, see above "service host:anything really" 

 

[MATTHEWFOXALL]

could one of you possibly add me on discord (if you have it) and help me xD