Svchost

[Duddits]

First off, I'd have to say that currently, I don't have a fast computer. Every bit of memory count for me to operate at a pace that won't drive me completely bat shit.

I was wondering, what does SVCHOST.exe do? Is it anything important, because the 5 SVCHOST appliacations running (accourding to good ol' ALT + CTRL + DEL ) are taking up a good 20 megs of space. If I close them, it merely will shut my computer down (well, it will give me a good 60 second notice that it will, WOOT! 9_9 )

EDIT--- Hahaha.. 1,300 I finally beat Mordy to a milestone post.

[Exedore]

Well written and to the point answer (http://ask-leo.com/archives/000030.html).
Microsoft's Description (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;250320).

In a nutshell: svchost.exe allows DLL's to be run as executables and it's common for there to be a few of them running.


If you want to save as much as possible on RAM used by windows XP, try disabling a lot of the services. (Go to run and type services.msc and then disable ones that you don't need). Also, disabling a lot of the graphical eye-candy (fade-ins, etc) can increase performance.

[hammocksleeper]

I guess svchost is the XP equivalent of rundll32. (I am running win98) I asked this question at BF a while ago, I knew what the purpose rundll32 was, but I wanted to know how to tell which instance of rundll belonged to which dll and where it came from. I couldn't get an answer. So I think it's great that you can tell what "services" belong to which svchost (it tells you in the first link from Exedore); however, I wish I knew a way to do this in win98...

[Exedore]

I guess svchost is the XP equivalent of rundll32.

Not exactly. svchost is mostly used for operating system services, whereas rundll32 is mostly used for applications.

[UndeadBastard]

Also, disabling a lot of the graphical eye-candy (fade-ins, etc) can increase performance.

Where can I set this?

[TimP]

Right click My Computer and go to Properties. Click the Advanced tab and click Settings in the Performance group box.