Win7: This one has me stumped. TaskManager screenshots

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So basically, I've got Windows 7 RC.
When I'm chillin, I usually am running Digsby, Outlook, Windows Media Player, and then a couple tabs in IE. Chat, Email, Music, and then my web browsing.

Sometimes, it seems like after I've been using it awhile, it just runs like a pile of dog crap for a bit, and very suddenly. This probably lasts 15-20 minutes. I mean, it took a good 60 seconds to pull up Task Manager to take these screenshots.

What I cannot figure out is WHAT THE HECK IT IS DOING during this time. Anyone see anything???
Obviously it's the CPU, it's not like I'm running out of RAM or anything.

This one is just of processes under my user account:
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This one is all system processes:
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Any ideas?
 
Did you try opening up resource monitor? I've seen it happen with spiking "system interrupts" but you won't see it in that process screen.
 
Snowknight26 said:
Or just right click on that instance of svchost.exe and select Go to Service(s).
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Process Explorer is just a ton more useful than the default Task Manger with the ability to locate a process by dragging over a window and a bunch of other stuff. The only issue is that some games anti-piracy software will not allow that game to launch if Process Explorer is running.
 
heatlesssun said:
That svchost.exe process at 48% is probably your problem. Download this tool: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx. It gives you the ability to see the apps inside the container scvhost.exe process and should give you a better idea of what is going on here.
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Will do.

Just had this happen again a little bit ago and SVCHOST wasn't as high as it was that time... I honestly, when it's doing the live updates in Task Manager, can't see anything that's unusually high.
 
tasklist /svc

Run at a command prompt, its another quick way to see what processes are in each svchost.
 
You said you had WMP open and I've noticed that WMP updates my media libraries for what seems like forever. I'd like to see if you have the same issue when WMP isn't running.
 
Mindriot said:
You said you had WMP open and I've noticed that WMP updates my media libraries for what seems like forever. I'd like to see if you have the same issue when WMP isn't running.
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Yea, and sometimes I've noticed WMP is updating the libraries when this happens.

But, I'd think if I nix WMP (as I do), then my CPU usage would immediately go down, which it does not.


Very very odd issue. I'm waiting for it to happen again.
 
Just happened again and WMP was not running at all.

Pulled up Process Explorer and saw two things.
A Windows Media Player network service, and an svchost with Windows Defender in it.
Disabled both of those services, going to see if either one was the cause.
 
*part* of it always seems when IE starts using alot of resources. Cant explain why really. It's like IE doesn't free up past resources until it get exited.
 
For me, it happened whenever I was using my internet connection so that led me to believe that it was network service related. My browsers (FF/IE), download managers, p2p apps all started crashing after a while and my svchost was hogging a lot of ram. I isolated the problem to the iphelper service as I mentioned above. Several others who had the same problem did benefit by this.
the iphelper service is required if your isp needs ipv6. Mine doesn't. :)
 
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