Process explorers, monitor CPU useage?

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Well I've been having this problem with svchost sucking up all my cpu, so I grabbed Process Explorer v10.2 to try and figure out whats going on. Unfortunately, while it does reveal what services scvhost is running, it doesn't provide cpu useage of each of these services. Is anybody aware of a process explorer type program that would show this info? Its such an off and on problem it would take me a month or more to narrow it down by just disabling each service seperately on start up :(
 
Just a quick note from experience. You may find several instances of svchost.exe running if you look in Task Manager. If it is constantly running up CPU usage, you may have a virus, spyware or someting like that. I have 5 instances of it running on a freshly booted XP machine. None of them are showing any CPU usage. I have noticed on some older machines that Automatic Updates turned on can run that up sometimes. Never seen that as an issue on newer hardware though. If you are experiencing sluggish performance, you may be infected.

Do a Google search on svchost.exe and you'll find all kind of info about this service that runs in the background and is normally a part of Windows running.

John
 
On my Windows XP computer when I bring up the Windows Task Manager window it gives me a breakdown of the CPU usage of each process that is running while also graphing total CPU usage. This may be exactly what you are looking for.
 
The windows task manager allowed me to find out svchost was the cpu bogging culprit, but I'm looking for a program that would show the cpu useage of the various dll's and such svc is hosting, a my proc. expl. doesn't show cpu or mem useage of that. But in any case, I had auto update set to notify but not download or install; turned it off earier and haven't noticed any hogging (or that particular process ID) yet. Hopefully it did the trick!
 
The problem machine I had that on with auto update was an older Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop...Pentium 2, 366MHz w/256MB RAM running XP Pro. The machine originally came with '98 so that tells you how long it's been around. It was weird, for some reason, it just hogged CPU/Memory. I am on a Dell right now with a 733 PIII/384 MB RAM running XP Pro and when I do turn on auto update, the problem doesn't occur. I have checked that issue on the laptop just after a clean install of the OS so I guess it's just a hardware/OS combination issue. I found the best way to avoid issues with autoupdate is to not use the Microsoft Update tool and stick with the original Windows update and go to the office site and get those updates there. Microsoft update is a much slower process since it looks for all MS products and is also implementing Windows Genuine DisAdvantage at the same time.
 
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