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  • R Rajesh R Subramanian

    I too wonder what it is... It's running on my machine too.

    “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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    Xiangyang Liu
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    How come I don't have it? Where can I get it? :-D

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    • D Dan Neely

      Where/how. It's GUI is somewhat lacking in usability...

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      SimulationofSai
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      Just hover your mouse over any svcutil, it'll list all the processes within. You can't drill down to each of internal process though.

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        Where/how. It's GUI is somewhat lacking in usability...

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        Rama Krishna Vavilala
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        You can right click on svchost.exe and click properties. There is a services tab on the properties dialog box that appears.

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        • D Dan Neely

          I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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          Chris Losinger
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          you need svchost_viewer[^]

          image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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          • X Xiangyang Liu

            How come I don't have it? Where can I get it? :-D

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            Rajesh R Subramanian
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            I dunno. Mine came pre-installed with Windows 7 ultimate super duper special edition.

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            • J Jim Crafton

              Interesting, I don't have this at work. I wonder if this will show up on the home machine? I'm curious if others have this as well?

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              Marc Clifton
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              Jim Crafton wrote:

              Interesting, I don't have this at work. I wonder if this will show up on the home machine? I'm curious if others have this as well?

              Hell, I think I *wrote* it! Can't remember though, my resume is so cluttered with...ah, hmmm... back to designing satellites! Marc

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                Jim Crafton wrote:

                Interesting, I don't have this at work. I wonder if this will show up on the home machine? I'm curious if others have this as well?

                Hell, I think I *wrote* it! Can't remember though, my resume is so cluttered with...ah, hmmm... back to designing satellites! Marc

                Will work for food. Interacx

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                Jim Crafton
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                Seriously? So what the hell does it do? Is it's name actually suggestive of its function, or is that just some amusing coincidence?

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                • C Chris Losinger

                  you need svchost_viewer[^]

                  image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                  Dan Neely
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                  From the screenshots that doesn't appear to do anything that process explorer doesn't ie identify *which* of the two dozen odd services inside was guzzling all my performance.

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                  • D Dan Neely

                    From the screenshots that doesn't appear to do anything that process explorer doesn't ie identify *which* of the two dozen odd services inside was guzzling all my performance.

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                    Chris Losinger
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                    correct. this, or procexp, will answer the question you asked, when used in combination with taskman.

                    image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                    • R realJSOP

                      > PornHubViewer And what the hell is that?

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                      AspDotNetDev
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                      I was about to post almost exactly that, but thought I'd check if anybody beat me to the punch. Seems you did. :thumbsup:

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                      • J Jim Crafton

                        Seriously? So what the hell does it do? Is it's name actually suggestive of its function, or is that just some amusing coincidence?

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                        Marc Clifton
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                        Jim Crafton wrote:

                        Seriously?

                        No. :laugh: Marc

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                        • D Dan Neely

                          I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                          Paul Conrad
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                          I did:

                          tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"

                          and it returned all of the services being ran by my svchost.exe. I was curious about this for some time since it seems task manager has alot of instances of this image running.

                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                            > PornHubViewer And what the hell is that?

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                            peterchen
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                            Primary Object Redundancy Network Hub Viewer. You can cloud POR around a hub in your network to improve throughput, and the viewer shows you so. But then, there are people who are entertained by LVM_SORTITEMSEX[^]. for about five minutes.

                            Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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                              I did:

                              tasklist /svc /fi "imagename eq svchost.exe"

                              and it returned all of the services being ran by my svchost.exe. I was curious about this for some time since it seems task manager has alot of instances of this image running.

                              "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                              Dan Neely
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                              That's not what I'm looking for since it provides no information about which of the 25 services inside the process had gone berserk.

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                              • D Dan Neely

                                I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                                Sashi Bhusan
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                                SVCHOST expands to Services Host. It is a container process which runs a set of services. In order to find out what services are running under a svchost, you can download and install Process Explorer from the internet. Expand the SVCHOST and it should show you the services running under that SVCHOST process. If you want to maximize your system performance and if you see any particular SVCHOST process taking up lots of CPU, just find out the services hosted by this process with the help of above procedure. Once you are aware of the serice which is decreasing your CPU's performance. You can go ahead and stop that service( It is not suggested to do so, until and unless you are very sure what this service is responsible for). In order to stop a service. Open Run prompt and type "services.msc" and enter. This should give you all the list of services installed on your machine. Aftter this you can select a particular service and you can chose to stop it. Hope this Helps!! Thanks, Sashi.

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                                  I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                                  Paul Sanders the other one
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                                  Process Explorer (see Google) will tell you what services are running in which invocation of svchost, and will also list the threads and open files of each process. You can get a stack trace of any thread, so if one is particularly busy you might be able to figuire out that it is doing.

                                  Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk

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                                    Primary Object Redundancy Network Hub Viewer. You can cloud POR around a hub in your network to improve throughput, and the viewer shows you so. But then, there are people who are entertained by LVM_SORTITEMSEX[^]. for about five minutes.

                                    Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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                                    Gary Wheeler
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                                    I have issued that message in an application, and I approved its use.

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                                    • D Dan Neely

                                      I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                                      stiphy31
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                                      In Windows 7 you can right click on the svchost.exe in task manager->processes and click "Go to Services." This will highlight the services that this svchost.exe process is hosting which will help track down the problem. I have been having a svchost.exe go nuts over the last week and used this technique to discover that it was smart card stuff that was causing it. I took a driver update for my smartcard reader and this I believe is what caused it. I just disabled it in device manager and haven't seen the problem since. Good diagnostic tool! Sean

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                                      • D Dan Neely

                                        I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                                        dpminusa
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                                        Download this and try it. Has lots of tools and drill-downs. http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/[^]

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                                        • D Dan Neely

                                          I have one going bonkers on me eating a core for the last 15 minutes and generating 12k page faults/second over that time period (seems to be getting worse now). I'd like to pull the plug on it properly instead of just killing the process....

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                                          al_omari
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                                          My 6th grade son had the same on his computer and all software was even legal (windows, office, etc). I tried all possible solutions on the Internet and nothing solved it. At last, I solved it by restoring the machine to an earlier date before the problem appeared. Hussein Al-Hussein

                                          Dr. Hussein Al-Omari al_omari@hotmail.com

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