Why does scvhost.exe cause my laptop's processor to run at 100%?

Question

Hi, this seems to be a recurring problem that was there on my old pc and now on my new laptop. I had problems with my old pc with this process causing it to freeze, obviusly because the processor was running at 100%. If I right clicked on the process and ended the process tree my cpu would drop from100% to 0%. No amont of virus or spyware scans would solve the problem. The pc would run ok after ending the process tree until I went on the internet and was back again.

I now have a new laptop approximately 6 weeks old and have the problem again. Whe I first boot up its ok then after 3 or 4 minutes it will freeze caused by the svchost. I end the process and it's ok.

Please note that I don't look at any porn on the laptop and only ever use it on yahoo, ebay, comet, currys etc. My firewall is always switched on and anti virus is always running.

Its not just svchost that causes this, just found another process called epower.

Anyone got any ideas what causes this and why.

Answer 1

See if you can find out which components are using that process, you could have a look at the PID in taskmanager and see if you can find it in the services and associated to what.

Also, logically, this could be to do with some software that you use to use on your old PC. I had a problem recently where AVG 7.5 was causing scvhost.exe to run extremely high and using loads of memory. the only way I isolated it to this was by way of elimination.