Re: svchost.exe help needed

From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:50:13 GMT

stisvc - stisvc.exe - Process Information
Process File: stisvc or stisvc.exe
Process Name: Still Image Service
Description: Still Image Service, which handles scanners and digital cameras
and is installed by Windows if a scanner or camera is connected to the
computer. This is the equivalent of STIMON.exe, but for Windows 2000 and XP.
Company: Microsoft Corp. 

-- 
Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
In news:13dae01c44488$7de64320$a601280a@phx.gbl,
cody <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>  hunted and pecked:
> something else i should mention: the program that the
> guilty svchost is running is stisvc, not sure if that helps
> or not. :) any info would be sooo welcome
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> ok here is my situation, every time I boot up my computer i
>> find that one of five svchost.exe processes is using up
>> nearly all my cpu.  this problem starts several minutes
>> after windows has been started, or if i try and open up MY
>> COMPUTER or any other task that looks for my harddrives.  I
>> can shut down the offending process in the task manager and
>> the computer will run fine until I once again try to access
>> my drive c: or D: or if I surf the internet.  I cannot do
>> things like open up saved files on my computer cause when i
>> do svchost.exe starts to use up nearly 100 percent of the
>> processor.  I have tried using several spyware programs
>> that found nothing, I have run norton, avg, trend, and
>> their online virus scanners to no avail, (nothing was
>> found), I have downloaded and run worm fix tools for the
>> blast worm, the fxSasser worm,and the FixSbigF worm.  I am
>> running out of things to check, anyone have any Idea how to
>> fix this problem? anyone else experiencing the same thing?
>> oh I also downloaded the patches commonly associated with
>> this problem as well.... not sure if i was supposed to
>> install them in safe mode or not.... oh and i am running
>> windows xp.  Please help.
>> ..
>> .

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