You make the call either to disable it or not 1 In Task Manager, under Services tab, click on Services… button at the right bottom of the window. I cleaned out the SoftwareDistribution directory once again, enabled Windows Update to manually start and started over with the same results. Restart your computer and then try to check for updates. Rgds, Taylor I had the same issue for me as well. Run the Windows Update Troubleshooter Try to diagnose Windows Update Service 10 with the integrated Window Update Troubleshooter. The W10 automatic update process works perfectly and is transparent since it is done in the wee morning hours.
After I took all the important — necessary updates I needed , I have disabled the windows update service and I will check the updates time to time by myself. So, determine which service or program runs under the svchost. All those services provide infrastructure support for the Windows Store application, and its apps. As a side effect it also fixed Microsoft's Windows Update! Therefore, before diagnosing and troubleshooting the svchost. Here you can match the cryptic name of the Windows service which you saw in the command prompt. Saw a note somewhere about some browser issues that made it difficult to do this I had no issues using mozilla firefox. The final step solved my problem.
Working on the worm now — anyone new on here, please comment. Solution3 and some tricks of solution4 did the thing! Paul Dear Sirs, I have encountered this problem when I used Oracle VirtualBox since April 2011 on Windows7 Professional 64bit — it is almost 100% reproducable! You are about to find out if this has done the trick! But I do not wanna end it everytime after restart my computer. Just want to share my experience…. I've installed Win7 about 2 weeks ago and everything used to be fine. I don't see where that tells me anything??? Many viruses or malicious programs can cause the svchost. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: 0x800705b4 '.
Try to wait 1-2 hours depending on the performance of the computer and wait until wuauserv finishes downloading and installing updates. More info, The crash protection feature in Firefox 3. Pls recommend ways to end my nightmare!! This fixed it for me. Right after I disabled it, the memory usage went down from 90s% to 30s%. I have fixed Pc's for quite a while, from win 3. It really sucked working on a computer with that behaviour.
Now you have some simple comprehension of Svchost. In the latest version they added plugin-container. Tweak Windows Update to stop Svchost. Force Windows to check for updates again and see if the svchost high usage problem still persists. Run Windows Update Troubleshooter 1.
I disabled the Windows Update and Prefetch. Scan your computer for viruses Due to many viruses and Malware, sometimes you will face svchost. Let the installer finish the installation and then restart your computer. Shall I try after a reboot? If you stop wuauserv using services. I was watching the folder Softwaredistribution to see if it was ticking. Therefore, if Windows only uses one svchost. After going to the Service section i discovered the following being linked to the svchost.
I'm just not sure what to do to rectify this. What else can I do? We installed patches not on all computers with Windows 7, but only on those on which users had reported the similar problem. I have bookmarked this page, so maybe i am not that confident that my last 3 hours have been a total success. The wonderful thing about process explorer is it gets you the friendly name for each procedure rather than the brief name. Windows Update runs like a charm now.
Haven't noticed it when I am doing anything else. Now you have to right click on My Computer icon and select the Manage option. This is not normal as far as I know. Now if there is any new update is available then download and install it. These were the three methods which one can follow to find svchost. So I added those solutions to this article as reference.