Comments on: Separating SvcHost Services http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/ You can do more than breathe for free... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-185765 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:22:28 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-185765 Jeff E: I've made edits to the original story above, but you can just run @sc.exe config@ with no parameters to see the help for config, or @sc.exe@ with no params to see the help for the whole command, or you can read the Knowledge Base article "kb 251192":http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251192/en-us and you can find more information about using this method to debug services in "kb 934650":http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934650/en-us Jeff E: I’ve made edits to the original story above, but you can just run sc.exe config with no parameters to see the help for config, or sc.exe with no params to see the help for the whole command, or you can read the Knowledge Base article kb 251192 and you can find more information about using this method to debug services in kb 934650

]]> By: Jeff E http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-185627 Jeff E Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:22:31 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-185627 Karanjit Sidhu, What exactly does this command do? More details would be nice before we try to run it on a system. Thanks. Karanjit Sidhu,
What exactly does this command do? More details would be nice before we try to run it on a system. Thanks.

]]> By: Karanjit Sidhu http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-150342 Karanjit Sidhu Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:24:09 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-150342 This can be done in an easier "NON" Registry intrusive way by using the following command sc config wuauserv type= own the sapce between the "=" and "own" is crucial. Similarly , you can revert this change by making wuauserv a shared process. sc config wuauserv type= share This way you are not messing with the registry and still achieving the results. Cheers. btw: good work on figuring out how to do it manually yourself. This can be done in an easier “NON” Registry intrusive way by using the following command

sc config wuauserv type= own

the sapce between the “=” and “own” is crucial.
Similarly , you can revert this change by making wuauserv a shared process.

sc config wuauserv type= share

This way you are not messing with the registry and still achieving the results.

Cheers.

btw: good work on figuring out how to do it manually yourself.

]]> By: Mike http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-88861 Mike Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:02:52 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-88861 Hi All Had the same sort of issue with one of the SVCHOST services taking 100% CPU usage every 15 seconds. Worked out that it wasn't Windows Updating but the Network Location Awareness (NLA)service that was running in the svchost service. Unless you use Internet connection Sharing you can disable this service. It sorted out my issue. I also removed it from the list of services starting in the svchost service Hope this helps someone. Hi All

Had the same sort of issue with one of the SVCHOST services taking 100% CPU usage every 15 seconds. Worked out that it wasn’t Windows Updating but the Network Location Awareness (NLA)service that was running in the svchost service. Unless you use Internet connection Sharing you can disable this service. It sorted out my issue. I also removed it from the list of services starting in the svchost service
Hope this helps someone.

]]> By: Carlos U http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-72018 Carlos U Sat, 12 May 2007 14:04:25 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-72018 Hey Joel! Thanks a lot for the information. You are the man mate! I did exactly what you suggested and found out that my "runaway" service was also the windows update service. What a hungry and egocentric bastard, it eats all the memory on its own! At least now I know what is taking all my memory and can stop it whenever I want without killing other useful processes. This has been the only place where I found something useful - in other sites they just recommend running antiviruses and antispyware, which in my case didn't make any sense since I just reformatted the computer a couple of days ago. Greetings! Hey Joel! Thanks a lot for the information. You are the man mate! I did exactly what you suggested and found out that my “runaway” service was also the windows update service. What a hungry and egocentric bastard, it eats all the memory on its own! At least now I know what is taking all my memory and can stop it whenever I want without killing other useful processes. This has been the only place where I found something useful – in other sites they just recommend running antiviruses and antispyware, which in my case didn’t make any sense since I just reformatted the computer a couple of days ago. Greetings!

]]> By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-69925 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett Fri, 04 May 2007 02:26:04 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-69925 That didn't make any sense. If you want to kill services on startup, you should just stop them from starting in the first place by disabling them in services.msc That didn’t make any sense. If you want to kill services on startup, you should just stop them from starting in the first place by disabling them in services.msc

]]> By: Shahzad http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-69746 Shahzad Thu, 03 May 2007 06:31:41 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-69746 hey Guys i want to kill the SVCHOST.EXE(System Or All) with the help of any script or amything which can kill these services on reboot automatically bcz killing these services cause to restarting the win Nt autority system please help me hey Guys i want to kill the SVCHOST.EXE with the help of any script or amything which can kill these services on reboot automatically bcz killing these services cause to restarting the win Nt autority system please help me

]]> By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-66268 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:37:48 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-66268 Thanks for the pointer! Actually, I'm not sure "that KB article":http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931852 would solve the problem -- I think it's due to using GeoShell, and some weird race condition with the systray icon notification which results from that (but I'm not sure). But I think you're right that "net stop wuauserv" would probably fix it (once you figure out which service is causing the problem). Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be a problem in Vista so far. Thanks for the pointer! Actually, I’m not sure that KB article would solve the problem — I think it’s due to using GeoShell, and some weird race condition with the systray icon notification which results from that (but I’m not sure). But I think you’re right that “net stop wuauserv” would probably fix it (once you figure out which service is causing the problem).

Thankfully, it doesn’t seem to be a problem in Vista so far.

]]> By: Jim Burkhart http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-65912 Jim Burkhart Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:11:49 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-65912 Probably the easiest way, without using the fix in Microsofts Article # 931852 (which does fix this problem), is to just go to "Run" and type in "net stop wuauserv" and that will stop the Automatic Update service. Probably the easiest way, without using the fix in Microsofts Article # 931852 (which does fix this problem), is to just go to “Run” and type in “net stop wuauserv” and that will stop the Automatic Update service.

]]> By: Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett http://huddledmasses.org/separating-svchost-services/comment-page-1/#comment-61529 Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:34:17 +0000 http://www.huddledmasses.org/2005/09/29/separating-svchost-services/#comment-61529 *C Gomez*: That's absolutely right. I think I omitted a step when I went from 1 to 2 ... in step one I had noted the PID and matched it up in step 2 ... I simply failed to mention it because I always have that information visible, and forgot it's not obvious :) C Gomez:

That’s absolutely right. I think I omitted a step when I went from 1 to 2 … in step one I had noted the PID and matched it up in step 2 … I simply failed to mention it because I always have that information visible, and forgot it’s not obvious :)

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