Hi,
In trying to resolve my computer being so slow on startup I download and ran
"Process Explorer" and noticed that about 2 minutes after I start my computer
there is a process "SVCHOST" running that uses about 50% CPU. The services
under that process is "DcomLaunch" and "PlugPlay". What are these services
and why are they eating up so much CPU time?
Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil
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Phil

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:04:01 -0700, Phil wrote:
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> Hi,
> In trying to resolve my computer being so slow on startup I download and ran
> "Process Explorer" and noticed that about 2 minutes after I start my computer
> there is a process "SVCHOST" running that uses about 50% CPU. The services
> under that process is "DcomLaunch" and "PlugPlay". What are these services
> and why are they eating up so much CPU time?
> Your help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Phil[/color]

Looks normal to me. PlugPlay has to do with pug and play and DCOM is the
Distributed Component Object Model. They need to find a lot of things to
get the OS going.

Svchost is a catchall that runs lots of programs. You can find a lot of
simultaneous instances of svchost running various modules.

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