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| Thursday, 21 February 2008 | |
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Facing a problem with the svchost.exe consuming high CPU? Hard to identify which processes are behind this since svchost.exe is simply a wrapper used to launch other processes. The task manager will tell you the PID... But how do you figure out what the real executable is?
Simply run this command from the command prompt: TASKLIST /SVC /FI "IMAGENAME EQ SVCHOST.EXE" This will list all processes, their names and the PID associated with them. Compare this to the PID listet in the task manager next to the occurence of svchost.exe that consumes all the CPU (be careful, there will be several different entries with svchost.exe). To view the PIDs, add the column into the view options of the task manager. |
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| Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 February 2008 ) |
