computer help needed

Post by **Ack** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:46 pm

Actually svchost is a bit of an odd duck. What's the User Name next to each of the svchost processes?

Post by **fox099** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:55 pm

do you feel your laptop getting very hot? ive had a problem very similar to yours and it was a hard drive over heating. trying putting your laptop in the fridge for 20 minutes and fire it up and see if it runs at normal speed. then swap it out and buy a new drive.

Post by **ubelaffe** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:07 pm

the svchost's are definitely popping up at insane rates - each time I try to open iexplorer, another opens and runs up the percentage of the hardware's use, but doesn't open an explorer window. I finally got system restore to load up in safe mode, but then when it reboots to finish the process, it isn't in safe mode anymore, so it wouldn't run because the svchost.exe's are too effing crunked.

I don't know what to do. I know that some of the svchosts are required for windows, but you can't find out what each of them comes from. Some say network, some say they're from the user account that's open, some say local. There's always one that's using more than the others at startup.

Post by **Ack** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:32 pm

svchost isn't supposed to be running from the user's account...at least, I've never seen it happen.

Post by **ubelaffe** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:02 am

so, I can get online from safemode on the admin account, but not my user account. It just won't show my ie window. It WILL do it in the admin account in safe mode.

I used the housecall scan that racket suggested. It found stuff, but then afterwards, it was still there, apparently and didn't change anything. There IS some adware shit in my ie6 stuff.

I can't install defender in my admin account, and I can't get online in my other account, or do hardly anything, so I don't know what to do.

Anyone?

Post by **Ack** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:14 am

There's always wiping and reinstalling. And what did Housecall bring up, anyway?

Post by **ubelaffe** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:35 am

I don't recall the names exactly, but there was one that is like IN my internet explorer. I'm going to have to do the scan again, but it didn't help last time...

Post by **The Apprentice** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:22 pm

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows- ... t-running/

That is the site I found when my brand new Dell started acting up. They explain on the site several methods to tone down the svchost activity on your computer. This could give you more available processing power, but I don't know what you should do after that.

I'd say to get the svchost running at minimum, and then back up your files, reformat and start clean.