How to handle svchost.exe taking up RAM and CPU

Svchost.exe is the name of a process (process) to help support some services running on windows. When we look at Task Manager, there are so many svchost.exe processes running, why are there so many processes coming? The answer is because they are divided into different jobs to help windows work better. For example, in one such process group, three processes are used for the firewall, the other one is for the user interface, etc. You can turn off unnecessary services by disabling or temporarily stop services that do not need to run. In addition, if you find that a svchost.exe is taking up a lot of CPU performance you can restart services running under that svchost.exe. The biggest problem is determining which services are being run in a particular svchost.exe, the following article is by TipsMake.com will guide you how to handle Svchost.exe causing a lot of RAM and CPU usage.

1. Check Svchost.exe processes with the command line

Open Command Prompt then type 'tasklist / SVC' and press Enter.

By doing this you will be able to see all the svchost processes running but we cannot understand what those processes are.

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2. Check Svchost.exe processes with Task Manager

Open Task Manager by right-clicking on the Taskbar and then selecting Task Manager.

If you're using Windows 8 or Windows 10, the processes show up in the Processes tab on Task Manager. If a process takes on the role of Host with multiple services, you can view these services by expanding the process. This makes it easy to determine which service the program is running.

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You can right-click on the service and select Go to details to see details of Processes

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From the detailed display of processes, depending on the version of Windows, you can right-click on a specific svchost.exe, then select ' Go to Service (s) '.

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This will take you to the Services tab, where services running under the svchost.exe process will be selected. Here you look in the Description column to know which service the application is and you will be able to stop the service of that application if you find it unnecessary.

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To stop a service, just right-click on that service and choose Stop :

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3. Check if the process is a virus

The process itself is an official part of Windows. Although the virus may have replaced the Service Host with an executable file of its own, this is very unlikely.

If you want to be sure, you can check the file location of the process. On Task Manager, right-click on any Service Host process, and select  Option File Location .

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If the file is stored in the WindowsSystem32 folder, you can rest assured it is not a virus.

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To be sure, you should also use anti-virus software to scan for any processes that are viruses or not.

Above are some steps to check the svchost.exe taking up a lot of ram in windows and how to handle the svchost.exr. Thank you for following the article.