Windows 10: 70+ processes of svchost.exe

Hello,

I have 70+ processes on task manager of svchost.exe ... I have never had that many processes of svchost.exe before. I know it could mean a virus so I ran a scan with Sophos Anti-Virus and there are no viruses, only tracking cookies (which I deleted but that didn't effect the svchost processes).

I have also tried running this on cmd admin but I couldn't run this (which is understandable as this is a system process):
taskkill /im svchost.exe

I have also tried the good old fashioned turn it off and back on again, so I restarted my laptop maybe about 3 times but no effect.

Please could someone advise me if this is normal and if not, what to do?

Thanks,
Dan

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80+ instances of svchost.exe running. Virus?

Windows 10 Creators Edition runs 70+ versions of svchost.exe, so it is not a virus, it is actually normal!

Previous iterations of Windows 10 ran 15 - 30 instances of svchost.exe, so that is probably where they are getting that number . . .

I currently have 72 instances running on my system

 

Win10 1703 runs lots of svchost.exe processes

Hi Rachelle,

Yes, it is wellknown, but I want to know why in some systems a svchost.exe hosts several services but in others each svchost.exe only hosts one service which results in lots of svchost.exe processes running.

Regards

Haibo

 

Have you just had your windows version updated? Did you have the Anniversary Update 1607 before?

Yes. This is normal if you have more than 3.5GB RAM and are running Windows 10 version 1703 or later.

Why do i have 72 svchost.exe processes in my windows 10?

More on this in the tutorial...

Change Split Threshold for svchost.exe in Windows 10

 

If you look next to the APP's you have open, you see numbers next to them.
My Cortana has 5 showing.
Under performance tab, CPU has 153 process going.

 

Device Manager will tell you what each svchost.exe is doing. If you right-click on one of them in the Details tab and select 'Go to service(s)' it will switch to the Services tab with the particular service being run by that svchost highlighted (occasionally it will be a couple of services).

 

I'm almost sure you have Windows 10 1703 build or 1709, in either case, that is normal, that was changed by design to help improving system stability if a service dies suddenly or crashes.