smerickson Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 7, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2002 nope.... just leave em there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartheq Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 Yeah! Stop them and you'll see a nice small window with countdown counting seconds to restart of your system:D I guess it was 30 secs...:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted February 7, 2002 Share Posted February 7, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+primortal Subscriber² Posted February 7, 2002 Subscriber² Share Posted February 7, 2002 Here is more info from MS Q Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oogle Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 for XP, you use tasklist /svc instead of tlist /s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimotel Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 check these guides out... http://www.3dspotlight.com/guides-os.shtml For Windows XP: Tweaking your system startup/booting :) WinXP Modem Tweaking Windows XP Services tweak guide :) Tweaking your system memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314056 Oh about "freeing up resources" YOUR NOT using 9x. so just relax about resources, oh and having plenty of systray icons too is ok in xp. just have plenty of RAM, something that 9x didn't know what it was for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Originally posted by xStainDx http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314056 Oh about "freeing up resources" YOUR NOT using 9x. so just relax about resources, oh and having plenty of systray icons too is ok in xp. just have plenty of RAM, something that 9x didn't know what it was for. Hehe, well-said :alien: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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