Here's an article on ms that explains svchost. It appears, if you want services to run, you gotta have svchost.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056 KE4MZ, Brent Dothan, AL [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wb4zpi.org No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant-free message. However, we do concede a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose A. Amador" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Odd PC Issue > DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA wrote: > >> SVCHOST (svchost.exe) IS a dog and CAN eat up performance on such a >> short term/time basis that it will never show up in your task manager >> and perhaps not even as a spike on you CPU performance. >> >> The other possibility is that something is running in the background >> (a ham radio program that you don't have running on other computers) >> that has not totally closed down. >> >> Go to your task manager and control panel > services and kill/stop >> all un-needed programs/services and see if the problem goes away. >> >> 73, >> >> Walt/K5YFW > > This is an old doubt....what does SVCHOST do? What is it good for to > have running on a > Windows PC? > > I usually see SEVERAL instances simultaneously on the task manager. > > Jose, CO2JA > > > > > > Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster > telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > > Our other groups: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
