Svchost is taking too much memory, help please?

My computer started lagging randomly the other day and I checked the Task Manager processes and saw svchost was using almost 600 k of memory and about 40% of the CPU. I right click the svchost and went to services and seen it as things netsvcs the svchost related.

I didn't know what to do and could not find a way to solve this problem, so I decided that I would just restore my computer with my CD of Windows 7 Ultimate. The reinstallation of Windows 7 (formatted my HD), it would allow me to make updates. I kept getting errors (8007001F I think is most often, I got) I searched and searched on the error I received, but could not find anything useful. So I ignored just updated. Now the svchost is take a lot of memory. Mind you, until I reinstalled Windows 7, my computer has been updated and the svchost was taking a lot of memory. Here are the screenshots.

Also, I try to put an end to the process, but it results in a blue screen and restart sometimes.

http://www.Tinypic.com/r/20saf51/6

http://www.Tinypic.com/r/31488kg/6

I suggest you download Process Explorer. This freeware utility performs a similar function to the Windows Task Manager, but it goes much further.

For more information about Process Explorer, see here:

http://www.Microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

When you open the process Explorer, you need customize settings. This by checking the options on the view menu drop-down. Click Select columns, and then the process Image tab check all the boxes before description, Image, Image Type and command line path. I suggest that you click also on two other options in the drop-down display, namely show processes from all users and display fractions CPU.

The extent to which you can customize is considerable. You can change the information displayed and this sometimes leads to confusion and frustration.

Processes are listed in the left column. Some names appear to be duplicated. This isn't so. Svchost.exe is an apparent example of duplication. You generally listed something like 10 cases. If you right-click one and select properties and the Image tab you will find that the command line is different for each instance of svchost.exe. Each instance of svchost.exe is another group of services. You can see a list of these Services if you click on the Services tab.

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