Anyone else got a SVCHOST hog that is devilishly hard to kill?

hendersonb

Yeah - have had the same problem on a few machines - disabling windows update service seems to stop the problem - therefore as mentioned earlier i would imagine a dodgy windows update - probably some more anti-piracy software that cripples us that do have genuine copies.

monty100

So ... having read through the whole of this because we are having exactly the same problem ...

.... how, exactly, in layman's terms, do we stop this, other than ending process at the start?

I am not a confident 'tinkerer' so simple steps please!!!

XP, AVG, ZA, Spybot and Adaware installed.

Thanks in advance

Chippy_Minton

monty100 wrote: »

I am not a confident 'tinkerer' so simple steps please!!!

The PE thread I posted references MS article 932494, which eventually leads to Update 927891, so try installing that and rebooting.

monty100

Hi Chippy

Tried that, downloaded and ran the hotfix, did automatic restart and ... no joy. svchost and wauclt (or something like) way up top of processes so had to end process, then internet doesn't work until I log out and then in again a couple of times!!

Will try again later.

PeteHerts

If the problem is for about an hour when you first start up then it might be windows update so try this

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=412386

monty100

Thanks PeteHerts - will print that off, find a couple of spare hours and work my way through the suggestions. Will post if/when it works.