Noticed last night that my computer was slow, so I looked at the CPU usage and it was running at 100%, even after I closed all running applications. I rebooted and purposely didn't open any applications, and after the reboot I noticed one of the svchost.exe programs (there are about 6~7 running) in Task Manager went from 0% to 98~99% CPU usage. This is a pretty old desktop with Windows XP and it's always ran pretty good in the past.
Also last night before I noticed svchost.exe running the CPU so high, my computer had a black screen with just an hour glass running for about 2 min before everything came back. I think that happened when I was closing a tab in Firefox ... not sure what caused that black scree, but think the svchost.exe issue is probably related.
Fist thing I did is scan for a virus ... no detections from 3 different scanners.
Searched the 'net and found this svchost.exe "fix".
http://www.windowsanswers.net/articles/fix-svchost-exe
Went through the fix procedure and everything seemed fine; ie, svchost.exe didn't go into CPU hog mode right away like before after a reboot.
I then tried to execute Windows Update and it looked like it was going normal until about 3~4 min in to the process, then the CPU usage went to 100% again and I saw svchost.exe was the cause again. Windows Update never finished after svchost.exe went into CPU hog mode, it looked like it was trying to update but no real progress was happening after the CPU usage went to 100% usage.
Any ideas or suggestions on this?
Also last night before I noticed svchost.exe running the CPU so high, my computer had a black screen with just an hour glass running for about 2 min before everything came back. I think that happened when I was closing a tab in Firefox ... not sure what caused that black scree, but think the svchost.exe issue is probably related.
Fist thing I did is scan for a virus ... no detections from 3 different scanners.
Searched the 'net and found this svchost.exe "fix".
http://www.windowsanswers.net/articles/fix-svchost-exe
Went through the fix procedure and everything seemed fine; ie, svchost.exe didn't go into CPU hog mode right away like before after a reboot.
I then tried to execute Windows Update and it looked like it was going normal until about 3~4 min in to the process, then the CPU usage went to 100% again and I saw svchost.exe was the cause again. Windows Update never finished after svchost.exe went into CPU hog mode, it looked like it was trying to update but no real progress was happening after the CPU usage went to 100% usage.
Any ideas or suggestions on this?