Lately I've found for minutes at a time that my computer will stop responding. I opened the processes manager and found that among other things, there are about 6 svchost.exe instances and one of them is taking up 99% of the cpu time. Disabling the process doesn't cripple my system, although I just tried to watch a Youtube video and there was no sound. Not sure if that's because of the process or something else (I recently opened msconfig and deactivated lots of startup items to try to improve performance).
I know that svchost is a normal system process, but why should one of them start taking up the whole cpu for a few minutes?
I know that svchost is a normal system process, but why should one of them start taking up the whole cpu for a few minutes?