karthic Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 HI guys i want to know what is that SVCHOST.EXE wnich shows up in the task manager and i am really sick of it for it is eating up most of my memory what is that SVCHOST.EXE??????? can i shut down those processes????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 mine is showing 912 k... i have no clue what it is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimPawlak Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 how much memory do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 It's part of Windows... nothing you can do about it really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 like php said its apart of windows, the only thing you can really do is restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 You can read about it here: http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsnet2k8 Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 HI guys i want to know what is that SVCHOST.EXE wnich shows up in the task manager and i am really sick of it for it is eating up most of my memory what is that SVCHOST.EXE??????? can i shut down those processes????????? Look at how much it eats up my memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 Heck mine uses quite a bit too. No problem here. 30,832 to be exact! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paladin Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 All told mine is using about 60,000 and I am having no problems. As I understand it is a process that runs dll's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted July 18, 2006 CID Share Posted July 18, 2006 Just make sure you are free of spyware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karthic Posted July 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 19, 2006 guys in my comp there are about 3 or even 5 SVCHOST.EXE running in parallel all occupying an accumulative big memory space some of them may have been started by SYSTEM and others by NETWORK SERVICE or LOCAL SERVICE so only a bit curious about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @fallow earth is there any connection between SVCHOST.EXE and spywares?????????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsnet2k8 Posted July 19, 2006 CID Share Posted July 19, 2006 I Hope this helps answer some questions. I know there's a link but i just took a screenshot of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karthic Posted July 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted July 19, 2006 thanks ray for that info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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