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Follow him on Telegram , Twitter , and YouTube. View all posts by Sergey Tkachenko. Is there any chance to avoid that? Glenn s. The total RAM I have? Do you mean in number of kilobytes, or,? The only thing that has changed is the way it splits.
After a certain amount of memory used, the process separates into more processes which will not slow down the system much. And has a lot of benefits stated above.
Finally i understand this.. On a regular workstation. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Advertisement. Support us Winaero greatly relies on your support. Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! As I write this, there are no less than 11 copies of svchost. To understand why this is expected, we need to understand a little bit about why svchost exists and what it does.
Become a Patron of Ask Leo! You can quickly see which services are running by typing NET START in a command window, or by right-clicking on your Computer icon, clicking on Manage , clicking on the small triangle next to Services and Applications to expand it, and then clicking on Services.
The Services interface shown above displays all installed services and an indication of whether they are running or not. There are many things that are common to all services: how they start, how they interact with the system, and how they manage the administrivia of running a system service.
Rather than writing a complete service from scratch, many are implemented as a type of program run by another program. The actual service is typically implemented in a DLL that svhost. As it turns out, a single copy of svchost.
Hover your mouse pointer over one of the svchost. In this example, the pop -up shows that this single instance of svchost. Other instances typically host fewer, often only one.
Which copy of svchost. In the past, the svchost. Windows File Protection in later versions of Windows rendered this approach mostly ineffective.
Malware authors often try to install their malware as a service hosted by svchost. Installing a service requires administrative access and is effectively blocked in most cases by limited user accounts in Windows XP and UAC in Windows Vista, 7 and later.
Malware is sometimes actually delivered in a file called svchost. Similar sounding names and typos have also been fairly common. This is an update to an article originally published October 20, A description of Svchost.
What is svchost. Written for Windows Vista, but applies to all recent versions. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Question 1: it depends entirely on the operating system version, the filename that should have been specified in the error message, and potentially the applications installed on your machine.
Question 2: svchostC is most likely a virus, I believe. What I can do? Please write me to mi e-mail. Jose Luis sanchez from Toluca, Mexico. Right now when ever I connect the internet, I will get the error message: svchost. Windows will terminate this program. What is wrong? Please help me. Regardless of who you take this question to, there are some common bits of information that will help. When I connect the internet, I will get the error message: svchost.
I am unable to find a solution. I have Win. When u click on Cancel it opens a Visual studio window. I have already formatted the comp and even loaded the latest Internet Explorer version. The problem still persists. On the task manager, I always see svchost. What causes this and how can I correct it? That may provide a clue. Leo, thank you for your online forum. I have tried to find the bottleneck to no avail. Numerous tweak scripts, exhaustive startup manager trials.
This is true for every file listed. Any thoughts? Otherwise, the system performs quite nicely. Having everything listed twice certainly seems suspicious.
It also points to another article on controlling what happens at startup with instructions on how to use msconfig. Again, the article I just referenced discusses that also. Through Zone Alarm I learn that svchost. Tech Inf. One of the svchost. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.
Posted 12 February - AM. Hi I have multiple processes running on the computer especially the svchost. Okay so I researched on the internet for possible solutions, msconfig to disable unwanted programs done, run full scan malwarebytes and mse done, nothing found.. Tried using microsoft fix it tools nothing found, anyway if you need some log files for further checks I can send it here, I just don't want to mess up with my laptop that's why I am asking for help in this site.
I have just looked at running processes on my XP and there are at least 7 or 8 versions of svchost. Update and run a Full Scan with your Antivirus. Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop. Click on the Scan button. After the scan has finished, click on the Report button If you see any which you do not want removed, remove the check mark next to it. Next : Click on the Clean button only once to remove the selected items.
You will receive a message telling you that all programs will be close so that the infections can be removed. Click on OK, and then OK again to confirm the reboot. When cleaning process is complete a log AdwCleaner[S0]. Please Copy and Paste this log in your next post. Posted 14 February - AM.
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