Our two home machines (XP-home and XP-pro) both start a SVCHOST task that uses 100% of the CPU from startup until the task is canceled. I applied HotFix KB927891 on top of SP/2 with no effect - I also stopped MS Automatic updates - no effect.Canceling the looping SVCHOST has no adverse effect I can see. I ran AVG free virus scan, no problems.Any idea where I look next?Thank you.
December 9, 2007 9:27:00 AM EST
Blogging with Computer Gal said...
Hi,Sounds as though you have a bug that has attached itself to the svchost.exe. As you know by now it is one of the most annoying as it pretty much brings your computer to a stand still, and is dangerous to your pc running it at 100%.I would recommend restarting your computer in safe mode, by hitting the F8 key upon reboot. You should receive the safemode boot screen and choose the option of safe mode with networking.Connect to the internet and scan your pc with one of the free online scans such as bitdefender found here http://www.bitdefender.com
then I would download cleaner which is a wonderful free utility that cleans your pc of alot of the crap downloaded while on the internet, cleaner is available from file hippo here http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner I would then uninstall AVG and try Avast. I have had much better luck with Avast keeping a pc safe than AVG lately. You can find Avast and all the other mentioned utilities on my web site on the resource page here http://www.computer-gal.com/resource.htm After doing the above simply reboot normal and your problem should be solved :)Good Luck and let me know how it goes...Computer Gal
December 14, 2007 9:03:00 PM EST
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