Jose,
Here's a full technical description about this executable and its tasks: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ----- Original Message ----- From: Jose A. Amador To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Odd PC Issue DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: > SVCHOST (svchost.exe) IS a dog and CAN eat up performance on such a > short term/time basis that it will never show up in your task manager > and perhaps not even as a spike on you CPU performance. > > The other possibility is that something is running in the background > (a ham radio program that you don't have running on other computers) > that has not totally closed down. > > Go to your task manager and control panel > services and kill/stop > all un-needed programs/services and see if the problem goes away. > > 73, > > Walt/K5YFW This is an old doubt....what does SVCHOST do? What is it good for to have running on a Windows PC? I usually see SEVERAL instances simultaneously on the task manager. Jose, CO2JA
