Hi,
I have a problem with my windows xp PC.
There is a svchost.exe file that is consuming my PCs resources.
It seems to take over within a few minutes.
It just hit over 1,000,000 k of mem usage and nearly 100% of the CPU.
I have used malware bytes , super antispyware, spybot search, tweaking and cc cleaner. All came up with different viruses and files that were deleted. But still I have this bogging down of my system.
Some programs sit forever to do a command. Sometimes I go into task manager and delete the svchost file that is being greedy just so the other programs have a chance to work.
Even though I delete the file…it just comes back within a few seconds and starts to use up all available resources. Safe mode helps to stop it, but safe with networking let's the svchost file take over.
I'm tempted to format the whole drive and start again, but I have a lot of old programs that I don't have the key codes for anymore, or they were downloaded so I would rather not do the formatting. Even if I did format I don't know if it will clear this nasty problem. i have attached a screen shot showing what was going on inside the svchost file at that time, i dont know if it is always the same.
Thanks for the help
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