Windows 7 "svchost.exe". Help needed...

[KieuVanQuan]

I got this svchost.exe running at all times even though I turned windows updates off completely via services.msc and control panel. I believe it's a memory leak error because the ram that is used by this background program keeps increasing steadily...

 

Is this normal?

 

 

Consuming a shitload of RAM and having multiple instances...is it fine?

 

 

Things I've tried:

 

- installed ~185 updates successfully

- completely disabled Windows Update service in services.msc

- reinstalled windows completely (format and then fresh install)

 

Now, my biggest problem is that I had this exact same Windows 7 CD installed on this machine (a week ago or so) and I clearly remember not having this memory leak error, ... or whatever the hell it is. Due to the fact that I had received a legit copy of Windows 8 from my bro - me thinking it would be better than Win7 - I installed it on my PC...which was a big mistake, because it sucks. So then I uninstalled it and installed Windows 7 again. And now I'm having to deal with this uh...svchost crap. It was present before updates too so...it wasn't caused by the updates. 

 

Why am I having this error? Any ideas? You can see my PC's components in my signature. My current Windows 7 build is 7601 totally legit from Microsoft, activated, updated.

'Windows 7 Pro x64 ENG'

 

Any help pls?

[wasab]

Try deleting system32 folders 

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Don’t do it, I’m just joking.

 

[KieuVanQuan]

Just now, wasab said:

Try deleting system32 folders 

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Don’t do it, I’m just joking.

 

Dude I've been effin around with installing windows for almost a day...reinstalled this crap twice, installed dumb-ass updates idk how many times and I'm f@#kin pissed at Microsoft now. -.-

[GreenXpqser]

Just now, KieuVanQuan said:

Dude I've been effin around with installing windows for almost a day...reinstalled this crap twice, installed dumb-ass updates idk how many times and I'm f@#kin pissed at Microsoft now. -.-

where is it located?

if the svchost is located on system32, it's not a virus but if its located on other folder delete it immediately

[Straxxus]

1 minute ago, KieuVanQuan said:

Dude I've been effin around with installing windows for almost a day...reinstalled this crap twice, installed dumb-ass updates idk how many times and I'm f@#kin pissed at Microsoft now. -.-

It's probably just the search indexer or superfetch doing stuff, should go away after a day or 2.

[KieuVanQuan]

1 minute ago, Straxxus said:

It's probably just the search indexer or superfetch doing stuff, should go away after a day or 2.

 

That might make sense. I don't know about that tbh.

 

1 minute ago, GreenXpqser said:

where is it located?

if the svchost is located on system32, it's not a virus but if its located on other folder delete it immediately

System32.

[wasab]

5 minutes ago, KieuVanQuan said:

Dude I've been effin around with installing windows for almost a day...reinstalled this crap twice, installed dumb-ass updates idk how many times and I'm f@#kin pissed at Microsoft now. -.-

Use Linux like me then. Nuke winblows from your drive and get some good user friendly distro on there like Ubuntu, deepin, or mint. 

[KieuVanQuan]

Just now, wasab said:

Use Linux like me then. Nuke winblows from your drive and get some good user friendly distro on there like Ubuntu, deepin, or mint. 

I would, bruh, I would. But a lot of programs only support windows. I'm honestly fed up with Microsoft's shit.

[GoodBytes]

svchost.exe is a platform/foundation of sorts that a program can register to to become a service. Basically, making a Windows Service has a lot of challenges, mostly security, power consumption (consider Windows powered tablets and laptops), and also needs lots of requirements.The service svchost provide that foundation for simple services, where only basic tasks are needed. Windows itself uses it for many things. That is why you have you have sooo many svchost.exe. And in fact, Windows 8.1 and older OSs, some of them regroups several services. Since Windows 10 version 1703, if you have the RAM, Windows won't regroup anymore.. so now you have even more svchost.exe that appears in the Task manager. The purpose of that, is that it allows you to identify exactly which service has a memory leak, or consuming CPU like crazy, and you can better troubleshoot the problem. It also adds even more security, as a compromised service within a group can no longer be an open door to attack another service o that group with ease. It also allows to restart a specific service (say it crashes), without affecting other services within the group.

 

So while in 10, the Task Manager under "Processes" tell you with a nice name, which svchost.exe is, like so:

 

In your case, under Windows 7, you need to show the column "Command Line", under the Detail pane, and see, based on that, what the service(s) possibly is. Also, it is an easy way to know if you don't have malware that is called svchost.exe, but isn't the real one under system32. 

 

To show the Command Line column, simply, under the Details tab, right-click on the columns headers section, and pick "Select Column", a small panel will open, inside it, check the box called "Command Line", and pick OK. It will now be displayed.

 

[KieuVanQuan]

2 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

svchost.exe is a platform/foundation of sorts that a program can register to to become a service. Basically, making a Windows Service has a lot of challenges, mostly security, power consumption (consider Windows powered tablets and laptops), and also needs lots of requirements.The service svchost provide that foundation for simple services, where only basic tasks are needed. Windows itself uses it for many things. That is why you have you have sooo many svchost.exe. And in fact, Windows 8.1 and older OSs, some of them regroups several services. Since Windows 10 version 1703, if you have the RAM, Windows won't regroup anymore.. so now you have even more svchost.exe that appears in the Task manager. The purpose of that, is that it allows you to identify exactly which service has a memory leak, or consuming CPU like crazy, and you can better troubleshoot the problem. It also adds even more security, as a compromised service within a group can no longer be an open door to attack another service o that group with ease. It also allows to restart a specific service (say it crashes), without affecting other services within the group.

 

So while in 10, the Task Manager under "Processes" tell you with a nice name, which svchost.exe is, like so:

 

In your case, under Windows 7, you need to show the column "Command Line", under the Detail pane, and see, based on that, what the service(s) possibly is. Also, it is an easy way to know if you don't have malware that is called svchost.exe, but isn't the real one under system32. 

 

To show the Command Line column, simply, under the Details tab, right-click on the columns headers section, and pick "Select Column", a small panel will open, inside it, check the box called "Command Line", and pick OK. It will now be displayed.

 

Damn, you seem to know it all, dog. I love you. I've been searching the net for eternity to find out what exactly svchost does.