- Aug 15, 2014
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Hello,
Hello,
Recently iv'e noticed that the services under "Local system", have been taking up increased RAM of my laptop, making it slow. After a little more research, I found out that all of those services were linked to svchost.exe. Now, I know that svchost.exe is a Windows process, but I don't recall it hogging my PC this much!
It keeps increasing its memory usage by 200-500kb every second and never stops! I checked whether Windows Update was running, but it wasn't! I tried to kill the process svchost.exe from task manager, but it just came back in 5 minutes! (starting from scratch though). Now I can't tell whether this is normal, or something's wrong. I had to restart my PC when it reached 3GB RAM usage because everything starting running slow
This started happening since 10/08/2016.
Things iv'e tried so far:
1. Ran virus scan via Avast (got nothing)
2. Ran Malwarebytes to check for Malware (got nothing)
3. System restored to 10/02/2016 (didnt change anything)
4. Clean up and uninstall anything iv'e recently installed
5. Closing my wifi to check if it were a download, so it would stop. (it wasn't)
The only recent change i did on the same day this svchost problem started was, I switched to a new ISP.
Below I added an image of what I mean. Note, this goes a lot higher than 1GB of RAM over time!
Please tell me what I can do. Thank you so much for your time!
Sincerely,
Raghav.
Hello,
Recently iv'e noticed that the services under "Local system", have been taking up increased RAM of my laptop, making it slow. After a little more research, I found out that all of those services were linked to svchost.exe. Now, I know that svchost.exe is a Windows process, but I don't recall it hogging my PC this much!
It keeps increasing its memory usage by 200-500kb every second and never stops! I checked whether Windows Update was running, but it wasn't! I tried to kill the process svchost.exe from task manager, but it just came back in 5 minutes! (starting from scratch though). Now I can't tell whether this is normal, or something's wrong. I had to restart my PC when it reached 3GB RAM usage because everything starting running slow
This started happening since 10/08/2016.
Things iv'e tried so far:
1. Ran virus scan via Avast (got nothing)
2. Ran Malwarebytes to check for Malware (got nothing)
3. System restored to 10/02/2016 (didnt change anything)
4. Clean up and uninstall anything iv'e recently installed
5. Closing my wifi to check if it were a download, so it would stop. (it wasn't)
The only recent change i did on the same day this svchost problem started was, I switched to a new ISP.
Below I added an image of what I mean. Note, this goes a lot higher than 1GB of RAM over time!
Please tell me what I can do. Thank you so much for your time!
Sincerely,
Raghav.
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