{"id":4645,"date":"2007-06-06T00:44:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2019-07-31T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:01:32","slug":"a-tip-on-troubleshooting-a-very-sluggish-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2007\/06\/a-tip-on-troubleshooting-a-very-sluggish-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"A tip on troubleshooting a very sluggish computer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently my computer suddenly became very slow.  The SVCHOST service will start and consume some 80 to 100% of CPU and RAM shot up to 80K++<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>     I made a temp fix by killing the SVCHOST process from Task Manager, which in turn stops my Workstation service.  Not good.  Survived for a few weeks. Until I sat down one evening to check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>   SVCHOST is a service that is connecting to the network.  One possibly it was corrupted by a virus eg Nimda or Spybot.  I know is neither as my network interface is not blinking.  Some forums suggested using Sysinternals (now a Microsoft company) Process Explorer.<br>  <br>     I installed it and guess who is using SVCHOST?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Automatic Updates.  I had 15 updates downloaded and waiting for me to install but I never did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     The moral of the story, if you don&#8217;t patch the computer, Automatic Updates will force you.  Otherwise, turn it off<br>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my computer suddenly became very slow. The SVCHOST service will start and consume some 80 to 100% of CPU and RAM shot up to 80K++<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}