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Service Host using half of my CPU

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Hello, I am new to this forum. I am having problems with Service Host using a lot of CPU and never finishing whatever it is doing. I saw a thread discussing this topic and people were giving links that others could use to troubleshoot the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried to post a screenshot of Task Manager, but got
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Jowi2525
Thursday, August 29, 2013 9:31 PM
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Make a xperf trace to see the cause. Install the WPT (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4847.install-the-windows-performance-toolkit-wpt-en-us.aspx), open a CMD prompt with admin rights and type this:
xperf -on latency -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 512 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d highCPUUsage.etl
after you captured 30s of the cpu usage, go back to CMD prompt and press a key to stop the logging. Now compress the highCPUUsage.etl as 7z (LZMA2, ULTRA) to reduce the size. Upload this file to your SkyDrive or Dropbox and post a link here.
If you want to analyze the trace your own, watch this video:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-42-WPT-CPU-Analysis
"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
- Marked as answer by Niki Han Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:19 AM
Friday, August 30, 2013 5:20 AMAnswerer
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virus can be named and run as anything... Try to make sure it is not a malware effect.
Use one scanner at a time
Download hitman pro 3.7 (shareware and can be activated for 30 days free)and have a full system scan.. http://www.surfright.nl/en
And/or
use malwarebyte have a full system scan http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/And/or
use Microsoft Safety Scanner and have a full system scan
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- Proposed as answer by Aravindaiud Friday, August 30, 2013 2:43 AM
- Unproposed as answer by Andre.ZieglerEditor Friday, August 30, 2013 5:18 AM
Friday, August 30, 2013 2:39 AM -
Make a xperf trace to see the cause. Install the WPT (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4847.install-the-windows-performance-toolkit-wpt-en-us.aspx), open a CMD prompt with admin rights and type this:
xperf -on latency -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 512 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d highCPUUsage.etl
after you captured 30s of the cpu usage, go back to CMD prompt and press a key to stop the logging. Now compress the highCPUUsage.etl as 7z (LZMA2, ULTRA) to reduce the size. Upload this file to your SkyDrive or Dropbox and post a link here.
If you want to analyze the trace your own, watch this video:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Defrag-Tools/Defrag-Tools-42-WPT-CPU-Analysis
"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code"
- Marked as answer by Niki Han Thursday, September 5, 2013 2:19 AM
Friday, August 30, 2013 5:20 AMAnswerer