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svchost.exe taking 25% cpu

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Mar 15, 202616037 views
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Problem

For some time now I have been noticing that one of my svchost.exe was constantly taking 25% cpu time on my 4 core, Win7 Ultimate PC. This particular service host is hosting: Cryptographic Services (CryptSvc) Dns Client (DnsCache) Network Location Awareness (NlaSvc) Workstation (Lanman Workstation) …

Error Output

ntkrnlpa.exe!KeSetEvent+0x2a1
ntkrnlpa.exe!KeDelayExecutionThread+0x5cc
ntkrnlpa.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x393
ntkrnlpa.exe!KeQueryHighestNodeNumber…

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Fix for: svchost.exe taking 25% cpu

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Whenever anyone finds themselves in a situation like this, the first step is to stop each of the hosted services one-by-one, waiting a few moments between each, and checking to see if the usage drops. Once you have narrowed down the problem to the s…

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