Alright so recently I have been starting to worry about one of my svchost. I have 6 of them running and they are all under 5k, but one of them runs nonstop anywhere from 20k-35k mem usage. Its somehow tied in with my sound drivers because whenever I get rid of it I can no longer get sound and I get a bad sound driver error when playing music. I took a look at them in cmd and this is what I got http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/... One of the svchost is running so much crap, while one of them doesnt appear at all. Thats originally what made me think there might be a problem. I have cleaned everyone so I have no spyware, and im running a virus check with panda right now. If anyone has had any previous experiences or knows how to fix this. Please let me know. Im having problems running some high performance games now whenever its on

It's by design; leave it alone. If you want to reduce the memory load, go though the Services interface and kill whatever you don't need.

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