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svchost using 100% proc cycles?

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captain_sHiFTy

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Shortly after boot (with 15 minutes to an hour or two), windows kept getting super bogged down, and opening anything up (even just a browser window or something) started taking a few minutes to do (and on a brand new athlon64, that just isnt good enough).
i checked task manager, and it says its because SVCHOST.EXE is taking up 99% of the cpu cycles.

AVG doesnt seem to think i have a virus, but im scanning again right now. Does anybody know offhand of a way to fix this? so annoying...*(&^)(*&^&Ting windows
 
If you've already scanned for viruses and adaware/spyware, like sp_100 suggested, you could also try this...Open Task Manager | "Processes" tab | View-->Select Columns | Check 'PID' (Process Identifier)...this will give you the PID for the problematic instance of svchost. Open a command prompt (Start | Run | Type cmd and click OK) | Type...

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe" /svc

This will show you what services are running under that particular instance of svchost.exe. Check your event log (Start | Run | Type eventvwr.msc and click OK) for info pertaining to those services.
 
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