There is anyway to automatically close a specific process on startup?

legendarysnake

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I use an old notebook and closed almost every software that started with windows. But after some minutes a process called "Svchost", infamous for sucking memory is anoying me. Almost 100% of ram used because of this process.

Ccleaner cant close it. This process uses like 1GB from 4 GB. Thats too much.

Already tried malware bytes. Yeah, it must be a virus, i know. If i close the process, notebook become stable again.

 
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Guys, ty for all the answers. I could not use windows update. there was something not letting me using it.

then after google it, i discovered that if i create a .bat file with those lines

"net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
rd /s /q %windir%\softwaredistribution
net start bits
net start wuauserv
wuauclt.exe /detectnow"

the updates returned to normal. After installed all of the main updates, and optional updates. the problem is over!

ZENprime

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Its a bug in windows 7 , its not a virus , that's why it is not stoppable with antivirus software .

You will need to either kill it with task manager , or know what exactly triggers it and shut that thing down

For me it was windows update , each time I started windows , the windows update would start searching for updates
But once It will start to show notifications for update , ram usage would jump to 100% for svchost
So I TOTALLY disabled windows update , then the problem got fixed .
 
Svchost is a middle man process. A windows service is using svchost to run, thus you will need to either do a repair install of windows or track down which service is using the memory.
http://www.howtogeek.com/80082/svchost-viewer-shows-exactly-what-each-svchost-exe-instance-is-doing/

As stated, if you are very behind on your windows updates that can cause it.

Trying to force close svchost will just result in the service re-opening svchost.


Now with all of that said there are viruses that go under the name svchost so people will not think anything of it. In task manager, if you right click on the task you can "open file location" If the location is NOT in c:/windows/system32/ folder then it is malware
 

legendarysnake

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There are several schost running in background. But one of then is using almost 1gb. When i close him, the pc back to normal.
If i try to close any of other svchost, close explorer or affect graphics. I know that svchost is a process of windows.
I disabled windows update, zenprime, days before i opened this topic.
I visited a site full of ads and pop ups, to download a bunch of stuff and then the problem started. Its not the first time that something like that happened to me. The solution of my problem for now its start windows, wait like 5 minutes. go to task manager, and see which svchost is draining memory and force close.
 
Follow the steps provided in the links to track down the exact .dll that is causing the memory leak. This will take time but this way you will know what program/update is causing the issue so you can fix it propperly instaed of waiting and killing the .dll process that is in that one particular svchost.exe
 

legendarysnake

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bgunner- i tried to do that. theres a service called "wuauserv"(windows update)
"winmgmt", "Shellhwdetection", "SENS", "Schedule", "profsvc" "mmcss", "Lanman Server", "IKEEXT", "Eaphost", "Browser", "AeLookupSvc".

i hope theres enough info, for somebody help me out.
 

legendarysnake

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Guys, ty for all the answers. I could not use windows update. there was something not letting me using it.

then after google it, i discovered that if i create a .bat file with those lines

"net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
rd /s /q %windir%\softwaredistribution
net start bits
net start wuauserv
wuauclt.exe /detectnow"

the updates returned to normal. After installed all of the main updates, and optional updates. the problem is over!

 
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