These applications experience the following issues: The Svchost. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. Last November I reported on a long-standing bug in the Windows XP update process that redlined many XP machines whenever they went out to look for updates.
It was so bad that a fresh Windows XP SP3 install would bring systems to their knees twice, when the new machine started searching for Windows update. The problem affected both Automatic Updates and manual updates using the built-in Windows update service. Not everyone experienced the problem, but those who did could only sit and twiddle their fingers for many minutes or hours on end while Windows did its thing.
Once the updates were installed, the affected machines may or may not have continued their wayward ways. There have been dozens of fixes posted online. Some of them work on some machines, some of them don't, but none of them have solved the problem for good. In the end, Microsoft had to fix it. With XP reaching end of life in April, many people were afraid Microsoft didn't have much motivation to make its elder statesman product work properly.
Muchas gracias. It slows down, almost freezes if I leave it open and do not work on it for some time. Then I have just restart PS and it would work fine again. Thank you for the information on the 3 files and instructions to fix the svchost problem. This post is excellent with many solutions. Once this was disabled the svchost.
All working perfectly now. I ran the 3 steps in order. The first one ran as explained above. With great apprehension, I rebooted expecting svchost to still be eating up the cpu cycles. Surprise, surprise… svchost is now behaving as it should.
I jumped the gun with my praise. I have 18 svchost. Should I delete them all? Or which ones should I delete? Could you help me please? Thank you for manual. If someone have no time to do this operation u can kill svchost. This happens a lot with common processes like svchost. Where to start? This is a really great post. It also seems to raise a lot of questions. The techies may want to skip this, but for those contributors who are trying to understand little better, this will hopefully help.
First about , things can hog resources and slow a computer down. Second, System Idle Process is not one of problems. It simply represents the percentage of time the cpu is waiting for something to do — pretty impressive how much the processor is just sitting around waiting — huh? Third svchost does not, in itself, use much memory, power, or do much.
It simply acts as a container for other applets or services, keeping them avaiable for windows or other programs whenever they are needed — hence service host.
It can hold one or more applets and some of the various applets will be in different containers. Some one or more of those applets usually.
To see the candidates, in taskmanager, click view and then select columns. Tic PID and anything else you may be curious about. Note the PID of the high usage svchost. The svchost with the same PID will list your candidates.
The fixes are elsewhere in this post. Next, this post has been running for three years now and — wonders of wonders — Microsoft has actually already made the two executables unnecessary after SP3. As to the. You can read it by right clicking, and selecting edit. The regsvr32 lines simply make those services available to windows.
It does not cause them to run — just lets windows know they are there. It then deletes windows temporary files, hides from windows the catroot2 fie by renaming it, stops windows update from running, deletes some old data so it can get updated, makes some other services available and restarts windows update. I tried all the above. Finally what worked was creating a new user account, then deleting the old. I am sure I have exactly the problem described at top, as well as the symptom of a hang at the microsoft update site when checking for updates, but the fix did not work, regrettably!
THe pc seemed ok but as soon as I turned on automatic updates the memory taken up by the wuauclt and svchost processes started piling up again, slowly at first and then with ever increasing speed. So I had to turn off auto update again. I have however been able to disable the microsoft update software and use the windows update site successfully at least. THis prompted downlaod of teh validation tool and then two security pdates and a malicious software removal tool, nothing major.
I would like to try some of the other suggestions in this thread but not all of them make reference to the wuauclt. If I leave auto update turned off things seem under control, I wil risk turning it on again and report back.
A ttime of writing wuauclt has actually disappeared from the processes list entirely of its own accord!!! Well I think the problem is solved for me now. Hi, I tried it. It worked terrific — for a while. Then after 15 minutes or so, it starts choking up the memory like before, slowing the system especially the browser. Any alternative, please because it is affecting everything I do with the computer. Both had the exact same issue. Hi Bruce. Just wanted to say thank you very much for your clear concise and easy to use instructions to fix this problem.
When I ran your procedure I found two of the files were already loaded but the. I guess? I also experienced the wuauclt. However, since fixing the svchost problem there now appears to be no compatibility problem between wuauclt. I guess only people whom their computer crashes all the time, need to go to safe mode. The batch file step 6 ran and the svchost problem appears to be solved. What the hell? Ok, I downloaded the bat file correctly.
Any ideas people? Now it is a bat-file. As far as the install is concerned, you do need to have Administrator rights. Did you log in as Administrator? Try this, go to start, run, type in services. Look for dns client. Disable it. This seems to be caused by a host file that is larger than normal, which is caused by anti-spyware software like Spybot Search and Destroy and others that use HOST entries to block harmful sights.
At least that is what I have found to be the problem in every XP machine that has a large host file and is running the DNS client service. It works fine here!! Just ran the script and it came back to work properly!
Any suggestions?? Anxious, now, to give it a quick try…I just love learing something new. Thanks for the hints and Good luck! However, the two Microsoft programs, the patch and the updates downloads, did nothing because my computer told me they had already been installed, and gave me no option to install them anyway or override those previously existing.
Is there some way to force these to install, or is that even necessary at this point? Needless to say, the problem still annoyingly persists, and my laptop seems to run slower than ever.
So what can we do with Vista? I think a KB…had something to do with this as 3 months ago I never had this problem. Now it is non-stop! My computer has been running flawlessly for the past 10 minutes and there is no sign of trouble. Thank you Mr. Whitty and good luck everybody! This fix worked like a champ!! Again thank you whoever came up with the fix. Suggestion from Charles Rippert worked liked charm, but now sure what will be other impact of removing that value. I am having a similar problem under XPx Is there a work around for 64 bit?
I tried your fix but the programs would not run under my operating system. Thanks, Ken. Ok, about 2 weeks ago I followed these directions and it seemed to have cleared it up for about 2 days, the svchost.
So, what I did was open up my task manager to make sure it was still high usage, adjusted the priority to low, then click on my other svchost. I did a search on svchost. I clicked yes, odd thing is, the file never went away but it did disappear once I rebooted it must have fixed it because after I rebooted my laptop has been running like the day I bought it.
I am running on windows 7 and this problem occurs to me. This solved it for months then it suddenly started again a few weeks back. As previously noted in post there can be any number of reasons for the problem. Do they offer a customer caring cost sharing option — no way. I will never buy HP again! I tell every one I meet in stores browsing their wares! I tell the store geeks as well — and it is amazing how many have had a similar experience and still sell the kit to unsuspecting joe-public.
At the time of writing there are posts and counting and I am sure there will be more valuable input to come. Keep it going please; I have put you in my favourites. Therefore, updating software definitions and then running complete scans to eliminate any problems is important. If you guys encounter an error or a problem with this file, it would be wise to run an svchost troubleshooting scanner to make thing easier. Hi Jim. It came as a text file for me too. Tried to do restore from a back-up from a partition from my drive.
I have tried this solution, but it came up with a problem. After that I change my standard dutch language into English and reboot, but it refuse to update. What can I do to fix this? The fix svchost batch file seems to have done the trick! I did not use either of the other files because my computer told me that updates installed on it were more recent.
So the problem came back yesterday. I tried the solution offered in response 27 and it seems to have gone away entirely! In fact, any attempt to update Windows results in the error message, including trying to download Update v3 that you give in your first step of the fix.
So I brought my PC back up. Will try this for a couple days and see if the fix holds! James from Oct 29th… I wish I knew the answer, as I am having the exact same problem. If someone can help, please reply. Hope you are still monitoring these posts! What am I doing wrong? Check if this service has been enabled on the listed Hardware Profile. If not, please click the Enable button to enable it. Click on Start and then click Run, 2. Please repeat these steps for each of the following commands:.
After the above steps are finished. Since temporary folder of Windows Update may be corrupted. We can refer to the following steps to rename this folder that. Click Start, Run, type: cmd and press Enter.
Please run the following command in the opened window. In the opened folder, rename the folder SoftwareDistribution to SDold. Hi, i really love this article cuz i have been search for a solution to this problem lately……. Ive had this problem over 18 months. Def was caused my automatic updates since when i stopped it in services, cpu instantly went back to normal. Heres how finally I fixed it…. Step2: Download service pack 3 from microsofts website if you already have a copy, you can use that, no need to re download.
AS described before, deselect the ones you dont want if you didnt leave it set on automatic choose custom instead of express if you need to deselect the WGA tools. Thanks Toon Schilder post Saved my time with just a few clicks. Just wanted to say thanks for your svchost. No noticeable side-effects as yet. I had this same problem.
It was due to McAfee virus scan starting soon after system boot everytime. I had to kill the svchost because it took up all the CPU time. I found another solution later. It disables the virus scan , but atleast you can use your system! Keith Gibson, post that worked perfectly, and quite easy as well!! Thank you very much sir!! Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. How to Fix svchost. Below is an example of what this looks like: How to stop svchost.
A black screen will pop up and white text will scroll past. Wait for this process to finish as it could take several minutes. It will close itself when its finished. Follow the prompts as it installs. Reboot the computer. Related Posts.
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KCMike says:. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. Thursday, May 8, PM. It is definately the CA AntiVirus engine that is interfering with the svchost.
If you have Automatic Updates enabled in any form on your PC and have CA AV installed and the real-time scanner enabled, you will have this issue when the computer is rebooted. This is because one of the first things XP does after boot is to see if there are any updates needed for the computer. The Automatic Update process uses svchost. Because the AV real-time scanner is enabled, the AV software "interferes" with svchost. If you turn Automatic Updates off, you will not experience this issue at boot time.
However, you can still reproduce this issue by manually running a scan for updates from the Microsoft Update page in IE. If you navigate to this page and run a scan and the AV real-time scanner is enabled, you will have this issue. If you put the real-time scanner in sleep mode before you run a scan, the issue does not occur and the updates for your computer will be displayed and can be downloaded or installed.
I have tested 5 other AV software products and I cannot reproduce this issue with any of them. Fix 2: Disable Automatic updates on the PC. This will solve the boot time issues. Good luck to all of you. Saturday, May 10, PM. Hi, First stop automatic updates from services. Next download windows update agent 3. Regards Deepak. Hi, I did everything just as you suggested twice , however, the symptom keeps returning. Friday, May 9, AM. I had this issue on 2 laptops and 2 workstations.
I thought I had a virus or malware that was spreading from machine to machine. I disabled the Automatic Updates service to alleviate the issue, but the issue still occured if I tried to go to the Microsoft Update site and scanned my PCs for necessary updates. When I disabled the real time scanner on my AV software, this issue went away. Issue resolved on all machines. I may even attempt an upgrade to SP3 this weekend.
Friday, May 9, PM. Proposed as answer by L. I Monday, January 6, AM. Saturday, May 10, AM. So if any of you are awake now, I'd appreciate your advice. Hope this helps someone Good luck all Sunday, May 11, AM. A manual Windows Update [today - just as a test! Tuesday, May 13, PM.
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