Hi,For a while now my svchost.exe has been really high,about 17,900 after a reboot,could it be because i've almost used up one of my hard drives? i have 2 hd's twenty gb in one and twenty in another,i havent used the second one yet,Should i get a new processor,or some ram? another thing i have a geforce 4 ti 128 ddr,Although the graphics are good on half-life,it looks sorta bad on bf 1942,and midnight club,like when i do a turn, the image sorta looks sliced,something about refresh rate..sigh..if i get a athlon 2200 will that fix the problem? My duron has 3dNow,So does the xp2200,Would it make a big diffrence in graphics? my motherboard is or once was a biostar,i took it to the shop and my buddy put and agp extension on it. Sorry if this was too long, ~Bryan

SVCHOST.EXE could be one of many processes. To find out what is exactly is: 1) Open the Task Manager and click View, Select Columns. Put a checkmark next to PID (Process Identifier). 2) Click Start, Run, cmd /k tasklist /svc and look at the service(s) listed next to the corresponding PID. 3) Visit www.blackviper.com to see if that service is really necessary. As I recall, I was having problems with the "DNS Client" service of svchost.exe going crazy after I installed some recent Windows' updates. I ran services.msc and set this service to manual, and I didn't have any noticable problems. Hope this answers part of your questions!

Whoa..it has Audio serv,browser,crypticsvc,dhcp,dmserver,ersvc,event system,helpsvc,hidserv,lanmanserver,lanmanworkstaion,netman,nla,rasauto,rasman,schedule,seclogon,sens,shellhwdetection,srservice,tapisrv,termsservice,themes,trkwks,uploadmgr,w32time,winmgmt,wuaserv,wzcsvc. and its pid is 1172,why are there soo many stuff running on that process,i have 3 more svc's running about 3 processces each!?

Dude! That command frikin rocks. Thx. Oh yah...mines at 17,800 so what of it. EventSystem, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection, srservice, TapiSrv, TermService, Themes, TrkWks, uploadmgr, winmgmt I have a fresh install of XP like a week old. I did shutdown at least 15 services on day one, however. Good Luck anyhow. dark.

If you're wondering, I have two instances of SVCHOST.exe on my tweaked system: ~3,200 KB: RpcSs ~15,500 KB: AudioSrv, Dhcp, EventSystem, LanmanServer, lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasMan, SENS, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection, TapiSrv, TermService, winmgmt I've disabled things I don't use like Themes, Windows Time Sync, Automatic Updates; but most people probably want to keep these. Also, take a look at www.blackviper.com

how do you take off the theme?