svchost.exe?


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i was just checking my task manager in XP, and I noticed i have like 5 processes called svchost.exe running. Does anyone know what they are and what they do? Can i stop them to free up resources?

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they're responsible for different services that run under your machine. im not entirely sure but if you disable services from running you should see the instances of them go down, right now i only have 2 instances of svchost running and im pretty sure they're critical to the OS cause if you try to end task you'll be presented with a window that counts down saying the system has to shutdown or be restarted or something

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