This SVCHOST.EXE is using a lot of memory!!! WTF is this? It starts with windows and have multiple of them working simultaneously!!! :o
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This SVCHOST.EXE is using a lot of memory!!! WTF is this? It starts with windows and have multiple of them working simultaneously!!! :o
Its a windows process, nothing you can do about it.Quote:
Originally posted by Gilojeleia@31 July 2004 - 22:26
This SVCHOST.EXE is using a lot of memory!!! WTF is this? It starts with windows and have multiple of them working simultaneously!!! :o
If I delete it windows will crash?! Why so many? :blink:
Its a Windows process, leave it alone man.Quote:
Originally posted by Gilojeleia@31 July 2004 - 22:44
If I delete it windows will crash?! Why so many? :blink:
It is a windows file. Add more memory if u think it is slowing your pc.
Good lucky!!!
svchost.exe is a windows service used for a variety of things and its common to see many instances of it in your process list, like as many as a dozen copies of it running at once. If you intend to keep using Windows XP, there's nothing you can do about it.
HOWEVER, be careful about scvhost.exe - note the switched c and v - which is a virus I was hit with once not long ago, that I got from kazaa. In my case, it hacked my hosts file to point all known anti-virus website domain names back to the IP address of my PC (localhost 127.0.0.1) and it was a major bitch to get rid of. It took me a long time to realize that scvhost.exe was different from svchost.exe, and without noticing that, I never would have gotten that virus off my system.
Wow!!! Thanks for the advice... :blink: