SVHOST.exe problem, helpz!

[thefpspower]

Hi, 2 days ago I started having a problem with svhost.exe, basicly... its using 100% of 1 core of my dual core notebook and 30% of the RAM alone! Now if you think this isn't a big deal here's the interesting thing, I know svhost is basicly a support for all the applications running, but when I START the computer, it is already opening with 70 freaking percent of the ram loaded and 100% of cpu load! It took my pc 6 minutes of black screen after entering the password to JUST show the freaking background!

 

My pc is already having a slow hard drive that I need to replace soon or else but now THIS! I haven't changed anything and suddenly it wants to be hungry and eat all the resources!

 

I can't even watch linusbreathtips on youtube because the video player says "blah error blah..." and then I look at the memory usage and its... 85%... NO WONDER it won't load!

BTW: Its also causing a shit load of glitches on windows, I have seen this thing even change to that white skin that is supposedly lighter to run.

 

Also, I noticed that I have 2 windows update icons on the task bar and usually when I hover over one it disappears but now I can even click on it... but I can't close windows update...

 

Here's MAH PROOF:

Apps on the task bar:

 - Avast
 - Puush

 - Mouse Controler

 - AMD driver

 - some Office upload center thing

 - Java

 - Curse Voice

[Master Disaster]

Malware Bytes full scan ASAP

https://www.malwarebytes.org

[ManIkWeet]

svchost is quite a common bitch...

 

I see 2 update icons in that popup thing... something is going wrong with Windows Update?

[thefpspower]

svchost is quite a common bitch...

 

I see 2 update icons in that popup thing... something is going wrong with Windows Update?

I also don't know what's going on

[ManIkWeet]

I also don't know what's going on

Try executing Windows Update?

[thefpspower]

Try executing Windows Update?

It just opens, I have more than 1gb of updates, is that what you want to know?

[techguru]

do a full virus scan and malware scan

[ManIkWeet]

It just opens, I have more than 1gb of updates, is that what you want to know?

I want to know why you're not... updating...

[thefpspower]

I want to know why you're not... updating...

I did a big update last week of 700mb, thats all there was, it took 3 hours to complete... yes... hard drives suck especially when they are 5 years old. now imagine 1gb.

[ManIkWeet]

I did a big update last week of 700mb, thats all there was, it took 3 hours to complete... yes... hard drives suck especially when they are 5 years old. now imagine 1gb.

I am pretty sure it could very well be fixed with the update... So... Glhf for 4 hours :3

[Beltboy]

I did a big update last week of 700mb, thats all there was, it took 3 hours to complete... yes... hard drives suck especially when they are 5 years old. now imagine 1gb.

If your hard drives are old/slow/dying windows update will cause the problems your seeing. windows update uses svchost, when it does a scan to see what updates you need it'll be looking at your hard drives constantly and it really struggles if the drives are slow.

 

svchost also tends slow your machine down if you have windows updates that it knows need doing and you haven't done them.

[Guest Mats Moolhuizen]

upgrade to win 10

[thefpspower]

If your hard drives are old/slow/dying windows update will cause the problems your seeing. windows update uses svchost, when it does a scan to see what updates you need it'll be looking at your hard drives constantly and it really struggles if the drives are slow.

 

svchost also tends slow your machine down if you have windows updates that it knows need doing and you haven't done them.

So... last night I left this installing all the updates n stuff... today svhost still does the same thing.

I have found out, however, that if I terminate that svhost process, nothing crashes but after 2mins or so, the windows skin changes friefly to the basic one and then goes back to aero.