CPU usage 100% Windows 7

[arkredneck]

Windows 7, 32 bit.  CPU usage is 98 to 100 % with no programs running.  Task manager shows svchost(netsvcs) pid1204.  Is there a way of getting rid of that process?  My computer is running very slow.   Joe

[Boggin]

Boot up into Safe Mode with Networking, download and run ESET Free Online Scanner.

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

Check the two PuP boxes then click on Advanced and check all of the boxes with Archives being optional.

There's also a box to check for auto uninstall when done.

If ESET comes up clean then work your way through this tutorial -

http://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-svchost-exe-netsvcs-memory-leak-or-high-cpu-usage-problems/

[Jethro Bodine]

Follow that link from Boggin , and it will almost certainly fix your problem
I only wish I knew of it sooner .... it would have saved me hours of work

See my posts in the thread  " Resource-hogging service  ...etc "

[Shane]

You can grab my technicians toolbox from my site and in it open the svchost services to see what services are running on that one. I am willing to bet it is Windows updates doing its check. trying turning off windows updates (Set it to never check) and see if that fixes the CPU problem.

Shane

[makinero]

Most of the time it is due to windows updates using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) .. BITS uses binpath= “c:\windows\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs”.. Simply by disabling windows updates or by disabling BITS service you can get rid of bandwidth eating. But disabling Windows updates is not recommended, since windows operating system updates /security updates will protect your pc from known vulnerabilities that are discovered time to time. You can use third party utility   to limit/schedule downloads as you wish.

[Julian]

easy way to kill bits from hogging resources at that moment is open up notepad type in this script save as .ps1 and run with powershell.

Code: [Select]

import-module bitstransfer

Get-BitsTransfer | Remove-BitsTransfer