Recent content by Woolong

Basically, whenever Windows Update starts up, the svchost it's running on will spike to 100% cpu until it either shuts off itself or I kill the process via Process Explorer. I can't update my Windows XP. I don't recall when this started, but it's a problem spanning multiple hard drives. At...

Huh. And I just realized I can't use Microsoft Update at all. Whenever I do, svchost goes to 100% and the update stops. Also, the problematic svchost just so happens to be whatever one automatic updates is under. Because I ended svchost that it was in originally just for the hell of it and...

Odd... I have an unknown account with access to that svchost... Wonder what that means. "account unknown (S-1-5-32-547)" Right above Administrators, Authenticated Users and SYSTEM. It's only on this and one other instance of svchost, as far as I can tell. What is this?

I wish I didn't have it on here at all. It's not even my damn printer; it's my parents' printer and I use it over the home network. I still had to install the damn software because it has the drivers... I hate HP. Dammit Google, get with the program already. We want Google printers. And...

I do have an HP printer, and HP did force me to install their crappy software instead of just letting me have the drivers... Thanks. I'll try that.

!!!!! Different instance of svchost.exe running wmiprvse.exe just spiked my cpu usage. Under that process explorer it was sucking up all of my processing power. That doesn't appear to be it... the other svchost is still doing the process sucking. Grrr...

Well, it's been 4 days since I disabled automatic updates, and everything appears to be running smoothly. I'll keep tabs on it for a few more weeks before declaring it safe, as I have my doubts. The strange thing for me is that I had this problem on my old hard drive. It just kinda happened...

Thanks, I'll try that. Hopefully that's what the problem is and it'll go away now.

At random, I'll have a massive cpu spike that I can blame on svchost.exe. This program is either tweaking by itself or a .dll file running it is randomly going damn nuts. The instance in question is the one that covers: Yeah. A lot. It will, entirely at random, just go completely haywire for...

Does anyone know how I can check to see what should be running under this instance of svchost?

Ok, there's a Software Explorer in Windows Defender. the instance of svchost that's running amok randomly (including now) is svchost 920, which handles:

so I have an instance of svchost.exe running randomly up to 100* CPU usage with mem usage near 200k. before Windows DEP would just force it off, resulting in a few dll files not running, and consequently some things wouldn't work properly. Now it just goes retarded and I have to wait a few...

With all the problems I've run into (Which I believe stem from a virus that I cannot detect) I was thinking of formatting my F:/ drive. Taking all necessary files from my C:/ drive and placing them on my F:/ drive after said formatting, I'd then format the C:/ drive and reinstall Windows anew...

I really don't want to do the limited accounts, since I save in Windows quite often. And come to think of it, I installed the HP drivers and around that time the DEP error started. Also, I don't know what's causing the lag, but when I enter the task manager, an instance of svchost is running...

...I didn't even think of this. I do have an HP printer. Thing is, I'm not the only one on the network who uses it. My entire family does. Yet I'm the only one getting the problem. Perhaps I should check for updates... As for the exact message, It says 'Generic Host Process for Win32...