svchost takes up 50% or more of my memory when playing game

Hi, i've been experiencing problems with my svchost.exe
each time while gaming on my laptop, my svchost will take up 50% or more of my memory according to my task manager causing it to lag.
And once i end the process, it stops lagging but my laptop will go haywire telling me that my soundcard isn't installed, which is not the case.
Any suggestions on how i can stop the lags?

 

Hi jAsOs

SVCHOST can run many times are you saying you have only one entry?

SVCHOST can also run many processes within a single entry.

The below will only work if you have XP Pro. If you have XP Home get back to us to make it work under XP Home.

To see what svchost is running hidden from you copy the text between the lines but not the lines.

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%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /c %windir%\system32\tasklist.exe /svc > "%USERPROFILE% "\Desktop\Tasklist.txt
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then
Start-Run
type cmd
hit enter or click OK

rt click in the open cmd screen and rt then paste
hit enter twice
close cmd prompt

Now there is a new icon on the desktop Tasklist.txt.

This will show what each svchost is running.

Post it back to us and we may can help.

Mike

 

Hey Mike, below is the list of the processes controlled by the svchost

svchost.exe 1144 DcomLaunch, TermService
svchost.exe 1236 RpcSs
svchost.exe 1276 AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp,
ERSvc, EventSystem,
FastUserSwitchingCompatibility, helpsvc,
HidServ, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation,
Netman, Nla, RasMan, Schedule, seclogon,
SENS, SharedAccess, ShellHWDetection,
srservice, TapiSrv, Themes, TrkWks, w32time,
winmgmt, wscsvc, wuauserv
svchost.exe 1324 Dnscache

it isn't lagging at the moment.
should i wait till it starts lagging then only i copy the command in there and post the svchost that's causing the lag?

 

Yes!

Mike

 

ok i'll do so when the lag comes.
its not lagging at the moment so guess i'll have to wait.