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Very high CPU usage for Windows Audio service
I'm using a Dell XPS 13 (3960) laptop, with Windows 10 operating system.
Recently, after I was hearing loud laptop fans noises even when no high resouce programs running, I decided to check, and ...
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Disable a Windows service from the command line
I want to disable a Windows service but I don't want to:
Open the "Services" management console
Scroll to the name of the service
Right-click Properties (or double-click)
Change the Startup Type: to ...
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What's the difference between an Application, a Process, and a Service?
How are these fundamentally different "things" on Windows?
Aren't all running things Processes?
It seems that every Application has an associated process that shuts it down if it is shut ...
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Finding CPU usage of a service
Because my laptop fan was spinning up for no reason, I had a look at the CPU usage and I see svchost with 12.5% CPU, which is basically a full core.
Now, I'm aware that svchost runs services and I ...
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What Windows services can I safely disable?
I'm trying to improve the boot time and general performance of a Windows XP machine and figure the massive collection of services that Windows automatically starts have to have an impact. Are there ...
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How to diagnose abnormal CPU usage by svchost.exe? [duplicate]
I've got a laptop with a Win 7 32-bit system powered by a dual-core Pentium (it's a 2010 laptop). Sometimes it works fine, but usually it idles at 100% CPU load. The CPU is consumed by two svchost.exe ...
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Is there a way to determine which service (in svchost.exe) does an outgoing connection?
I'm redoing my firewall configuration with more restrictive policies and I would like to determine the provenance (and/or destination) of some outgoing connections.
I have an issue because they come ...
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What is the difference between “manual” and “disabled” service in Windows?
Windows services seem to come in three start-up types:
Automatic: seems to mean that it is started at bootup
Manual: seems to mean that it is not started at bootup
Disabled: also seems to mean that ...
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Remove Windows service from command line
I would like to do this because I have a half installed service because of installation failure which is just there, non-functioning.
How can I delete the Windows service using the command line?
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How do I extract a list of Windows services and their status to a text file?
I would like to get a text dump of the screen you see when running services.msc (except the Description column). This is so I can run a diff after installing different software that adds services to ...
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Isolate hosted service (svchost.exe) in its own process
As many superusers are probably aware by now, svchost.exe is used by Microsoft to host multiple Windows services in a single process, with one process per service group.
In Windows 7 (and later?), ...
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Best srvany.exe for Windows XP and Windows 7? [closed]
What is the best program to use on windows XP and Windows 7 to do what srvany.exe does on windows NT (run a process as a service)?
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started seeing this two services suddenly "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa"
I have just installed windows 10 20H2 on my desktop 3 or 4 days ago and below two services "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa" started showing suddenly, please check below ...
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No http service - Windows 10
I can't seem to start my printer spooler service because some of the dependencies have not started.
So I looked at the dependencies in the options menu.
I found that there was no HTTP service in my ...
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What's the difference between an application, a process and a service? [duplicate]
I know that an application is a program that you interact with on the desktop, but what exactly are processes and services?
Are services classified as processes or is it the other way round?
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