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Micro102

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processes in task manage
« on: February 13, 2010, 09:31:58 pm »
Some of the processes in my task manager get CPU usage spikes. Mainly ccSvcHst and svcHost

Is it safe to just end these?
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2010, 09:34:52 pm »
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2010, 09:48:10 pm »
Some svchost processes can be closed, but if you kill the main one it'll crash the computer.

There's a memory leak associated with that, which is probably your problem, google it and you can find a fix.
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2010, 10:24:32 pm »
Yeah, it lost me at how to identify processes for XP. As long as they are for windows and not left over background processes
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2010, 06:58:32 pm »
even if you dont close the main svchost weird stuff can happen.

I wouldent recommend it!
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2010, 08:31:42 pm »
I find this site to be useful:

http://www.processlibrary.com/
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2010, 07:30:17 am »
Hehe, my sister ended svchost a couple months ago for the same reason. She learned not to do that again. :P
In general, don't mess with processes... The potential headaches are way bigger than the potential 5 CPU cycles you may get out of it.
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2010, 11:29:11 am »
I find that disabling everything in the startup tab of msconfig reduces the number of processes to an acceptable level.
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2010, 12:00:07 pm »
I havent cared since i got a 3 ghz quad core, but from my experience you are virused if you have more then two or three copies of svchost, like my old computer... (12+)
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Re: processes in task manage
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2010, 01:14:47 pm »
That's not true.  svchost processes pop up as more stuff is going on on the computer
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