This is not unusual.  Read the follow info and you'll understand.


Svchost.exe is just an easy name to say. What this means is that you have services running from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe running at the same time.

Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started. This allows for better control and debugging.

Svchost.exe groups are identified in the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Svchost

Each value under this key represents a separate Svchost group, and represents one instance of Svchost.exe. Each value is a REG_MULTI_SZ value and contains the services that run under that Svchost group. Each Svchost group can have more than one service_names extracted from the following registry key, whose Parameters key contains a ServiceDLL value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ service

If you go to Start --> Run and type command, you can find out what the svchost.exe files correspond to.

Good Luck

Walter

Aftab Ahmed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello list

Can anybody shed light on these two memory resident programs. System Win2k connected to LAN.

The task manager shows 4 ~ 5 instances of svchost.exe file with a memory usage of over 30572K. What is the origin of this file? and what is it doing?. And why do I need more than one active instance of this file? Do I need this file? If not how can I disable it?

Many a times while shutting down, a small window will come up with title "TPH" with the message the program is busy etc. Again the same questions as above.

I would greatly appreciate any help

Aftab

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