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How do I troubleshoot high 'svchost.exe' usage in Windows 7?

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I'm having a problem with Windows 7 64-bit. I thought it was slow and all, but then I saw that the CPU usage was always around 80% and started searching for a solution. There are two 's consuming around 30% each and in the resources monitor there's a system interrupts consuming 45% all the time. I …

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Core 2 Duo 4400
ATI Radeon 4850
4 GB DDR2 RAM

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Fix for: How do I troubleshoot high 'svchost.exe' usage in Windows 7?

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I think you'll find Svchost Viewer to be useful. You can use it to determine which program is doing most by viewing the amount of data written and such. It should help in some way to determine which process is doing what.

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