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I have the same issues with svchost as posted by Jeff on 9/15. After you delete the offending svchost process, the sound goes dead. Removing the sound card driver and reinstalling clears the sound problem. Full virus scan with 2 products and 4 different spybot/adware products come up clean. Problem appeared 9/15. Running XP home SP1 on dialup line.

If you are getting repeat attacks it is possible if you persevere to get into task manager >processes
look for the instance of svchost running at over 98% end process the processor goes back to 4% the system remains stable for several reboots or longer works for me hope this helps

At first, the svchost was just slowing me down, but now, I have no desktop when I log in; just an empty screen, and I can only use task manager to get things done. None of this is any help to me, because I can't access Control Panel through task manager. I can't use the internet, so I can't update Norton Antivirus, which may be why I got a virus in the first place. I put a program called AntiVir on a flashdrive. It detected 5 viruses/suspicious files, which are in quarantine, but i can do nothing with. This still didn't help, and i may have to re-install XP, but I'd like to know if there are any alternatives.

I was having the same problems with svchost and .exe maxing out cpu usage.... then
it seemed to disapear from the svc and the system idle was around 80 to 90 % but the cpu usage was still maxed out... after further investigation it seemed to be a hardware interupt issue... I removed un nessasary pci cards from the computer.. additional nic card, linksys pci wifi adapter and also my ATI all in wonder video card and now all seems to be fine... I plan to re-install them one at a time and find the culperate...
What assisted me with this is using
Process explorer
http://www.sysinternals.com
and following the hardware interupts that were sucking the life from the CPU usage...
its worth a try guys !

hey leo....i have a similar problem...i get the svchost.exe error after shutdown..asks me to debug by clicking cancel and all...doest come everytime though but yeah sometimes...also sometimes my cpu gives me weird beeps after shutdown...a set of two beeps of diff scale repeats twice..and then the comp turns off....
i have an AMD athlon 2400, i use NOD32 antivirus system, i have tried spybot, adware, windows defender...
is there anything else ic an do if the problem persisted?
please reply...
thanx

for svc host issues pls look on this
http://fix-pc-errors.com/svchost.htm

svchost.exe cpu 100% fix

I had this problem, checked the web, looked for viruses and called microsoft. Finally, I hypothesized that the problem was not something faulty or corrupt about svchost.exe -- it just had limitations. This elminated the problem.

1. Made sure that my bios was OK -- set it to a default state.
2. Defragmented my registry. (I used a program by uniblue registry booster which came with speedupmypc $29 total)
3. Defragmented my hard drive (which did need it)
4) just too be sure that the problem wasn't triggered by an outside hacker, put the windows firewall and my zone alarm firewall on max --I now use both firewalls despite recommendations that I should use only one of these firewalls.
5) I had been using goback (symantec's backup program) and windows system restore. I turned off ms system restore. Maybe the two backup program were trying to back up each other and creating an "infinite loop."

In short, I decided that cpu technology had not really evolved that much since the pentium 2 and that I would treat my celeron processor with some kindness.

Best to all.

Barry

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I actually found an even simpler way to fix this problem it was driving me crazy. All you have to do is
1.Go 2 the start menu
2.Right click "my computer"
3.Click "properties" then the "automatic updates"
tab
4.Choose "turn off automatic updates"
5.Reboot your computer
6.Go back to start menu and in all programs go to "windows update" you have to be connected to the internet.
7.Manually update windows.
8.Turn your automatic updates back on.
Thats it im running windows XP and after days of research thats what worked for me i actually found it on a website that makes you pay for answers to problems but my friend had a subcription that was years old but still worked.
Im no computer expert but i figure if this helps one person it was worth it for me to write this hope it helps c-ya bye!!!!

Leo,
I have a CPU usage problem. There are only 31 processes running at maximizes to 100% then of course it slows everything down! I have called and talked with a techie at the PC store (He is familiar with my system) He told me to boot up into safe mode then run spybot search and destroy and and an antivirus scan (AVIRA guard red symbol with an umbrella on it) I did all that and it temporarily took care of the problem. NOW its back again. 100% CPU usage almost immediately from the start up.
Any suggestions? I'm getting frustrated!
Thanks for your help.
Dan

I recently developed a problem with my computer continually restarting. As it boots, before the desktop comes up, I get several error messages, and then the computer reboots. I have been watching this process, and through frantic writing, I have a few of the errors that pop up: Run.DLL: Error loading MVMCTRAY.DLL - Invalid access to memory location. Also, CTDVDDET.EXE - Application Error - The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000001d). Also, svchost.exe - svchost.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close. Any ideas? Thanks!

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