I just wrote this post about the often misunderstood windows process called SVCHOST.exe. I am putting below the excerpt for your consideration.
Often, when i boot my Windows XP-SP2 operating system, the first thing i notice is a huge CPU utilization by a process called as
SVCHOST.exe.The process infact almost sucks up my entire CPU percentage.Therefore
to gain an insight into what exactly goes on, i thought of dugging up about SVCHOST.exe. This post is all what i have learnt about this process till now.
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Cheers,
Vaibhav
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