Windows 10: DISMHOST.exe is recursively recreating itself

Discus and support DISMHOST.exe is recursively recreating itself in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Dismhost.exe is recreating itself and and new folder about every 5 minutes while the machine is idle/asleep. Each of these new folders in... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by phennleigh, Jun 30, 2016.

  1. PHENNLEIGH
    phennleigh Win User

    DISMHOST.exe is recursively recreating itself


    Dismhost.exe is recreating itself and and new folder about every 5 minutes while the machine is idle/asleep.
    Each of these new folders in \users\me\AppData\local\temp\... and contains about 2 dozen files and a copy of dismhost.exe. To the tune of about 2 gigs an hour. The machine becomes generally cranky, acrobat won't run, Word is slow to open etc.
    Windows Defender and AntiMalwareBytes do not find any malware, they are up to date.
    Other machines I have have similar folders but not the rapid reproduction issue.
    Windows 10 [upped from 8.1] Dell i5 4 gigs ram
    Any ideas?
    thanks

    :)
     
    phennleigh, Jun 30, 2016
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  2. KURTBUCY
    KurtBucy Win User

    Why so many copies of DismHost.exe running

    I am in the same boat.

    If I leave the computer idle, every 4 minutes a new dismhost.exe process starts and puts a file in users/userid/appdata/local/temp

    This can accumulate to several GB per day.

    I have 5 windows 10 computers and only 1 exhibits this behavior.

    Started around beginning of may.

    I also found this thread that is older from windows 8 with some fixes, but the fixes are not relevant to windows 10:

    dismhost.exe recreating itself every few minutes in C:\Windows\Temp

    so newer posts mention users with windows 10 having same issue but no fixes as of yet.
     
    KurtBucy, Jun 30, 2016
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  3. PIXOUL
    Pixoul Win User
    Pixoul, Jun 30, 2016
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  4. ARC
    Arc Win User

    DISMHOST.exe is recursively recreating itself

    Dismhost.exe is a process belonging to the OS. But the way it is recreating itself as you stated, it might be that some malware is camouflaging by taking a known name.

    Scan your computer using TDSSKiller. TDSSKiller Download
    Also take a bootable scan. Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk - MajorGeeks

    Let us know the results.
     
    Arc, Jun 30, 2016
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  5. PHENNLEIGH
    phennleigh Win User
    No Joy.
    Kaspersky didn't find any malware, nothing does.
    The same thing happens with all accounts on the machine.
    Removed several programs, a game [candy crush something saga, don't know how it got on the machine] and Acrobat, since it was giving the most troubles.
    Totally baffled, I am not a grand expert but not a novice either [early adopter of OS/2 & NT3.5 etc].
     
    phennleigh, Jul 2, 2016
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  6. TAIRIKUOKAMI
    TairikuOkami Win User
    Happened to me once, they mention on MS forum, that it might be a maintenance task and corrupted files.

    Run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

    chkdsk /scan
    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
    sfc /scannow
    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
    cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & cleanmgr /sagerun:65535
     
    TairikuOkami, Jul 2, 2016
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  7. ZACHROGERS
    zachrogers Win User
    New member on this forum.
     
    zachrogers, Feb 4, 2018
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  8. SOFINE409
    SoFine409 Win User

    DISMHOST.exe is recursively recreating itself

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    SoFine409, Apr 4, 2018
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