>I was just minding my business programming in VFP and machine started slowing down. Within an hour it gows to a craw.
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>Naturally I start investigating. Stopping and/or uninstalling whatever seems suspicious. I notice that for some reason in Windows Task Manager the task manager itself is taking 25% of CPU time.
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>Any idea why this might be?
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>TIA,
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>Alex
It runs DLLs as services. You should be able to see which ones are using it by entering in a prompt:
tasklist /svc /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe"
You might want to read this for more help (it's what I used to figure it out only to learn it was windows update causing the problem):
http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-identify-what-programs-started-svchostexe-in-windows.html
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