Re: Six copies of svchost


"Pete" <Pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Before I got rid of Norton Internet Security (what a performance pig!),
the
Task Manager cpu monitor would peg out at 100% for many minutes everytime
I
connected to my dial-up ISP and often for no reason at all. Now things
are
better (I have AVG/Grisoft), but still everytime I connect, the Task
Manager
cpu monitor will peg out for a short time with svchost being the big cpu
user. Also, I noticed that I have six copies of svchost running, three
with
SYSTEM, two with NETWORK SERVICE, and one with LOCAL SERVICE usernames. I
looked at the Microsoft official page for svchost and learned nothing.
Why
do I have six copies of svchost running with only a dial-up connection?
Thanks.

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Pete

Six different processes are using svchost.exe for six different tasks.
Jim


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