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12-27-2006, 08:01 PM

Xuxa

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[HELP] A Running Program

I went to shut down firefox through processes and I saw I have 5 svchost.exe

svchost.exe LOCAL SERVICE
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM

is this normal or is there something is wrong?

12-27-2006, 08:05 PM

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I have this many normally, I dont think you have anything wrong.
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12-27-2006, 08:06 PM

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I hope it's normal because i have 8 svchost.exe processes running.

12-27-2006, 08:38 PM

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normal; just services running in the background. Run -> MsConfig -> Services (I am not sure What to Turn off, but I know some stuff can be.

12-27-2006, 08:57 PM

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normal. terminating any of them will make the computer run odd. just beware of scvhost (not vc), its a virus

12-27-2006, 09:40 PM