Windows 10: svchost and other processes causing network issues

In the past few weeks, I've been starting to play games again on my pc. I just recently upgraded to windows 11 and have never had problems this bad before. During any multiplayer game, I will start lagging, my ping will spike into the thousands, the entire game and my entire computer will freeze for a moment a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, and sometimes I get disconnected entirely. I monitored the resource monitor while playing and I noticed the main culprits were:svchost.exe NetworkService -psvchost.exe netsvc -psvchost.exe LocalServiceAndNoImpersonation -pWidgets.exesvchost.

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Analyzing Svchost processes in Windows

Here's how to track down detailed information about any Svchost.exe process running in Windows 7/8.

a) You can use the Tasklist command-line tool to learn which services are running in a Svchost.exe. Just run cmd (command prompt) and hit

Tasklist /svc /fo list

Scroll through the list and find what you need. It's not quite intuitive so you can use third party programs with gui. See below:

b) You can use svchost viewer. Best utility. Note: to run this under XP you need .Net framework 2.0





c) Svchost Process Analyzer is another app for that.





d) And another app called Svchost lookup tool





e) And it won't hurt if you use Process Explorer and System Explorer.


It's never bad to keep your system under control, plus all these apps are portable no installation is required.

kthbai

 

What does the svchost do?

Lots of Windows services are tied to the SVChost, and /or are listed as SVChost in the process list(s).

Unfortunatley with Vista, there's a lot more dependencies between the services, and thus you'll be FORCED to run more instances of SVChosts; unlike XP where things were more independent and you could disable more features resulting in less SVChost instances. That and XP and Vista are different.

Regardless of your Windows version, you can check out some service slimming guides or goto Black Viper's website and take his advice. Depending on your needs you may be able to cut down the amount of SVChost running, and save some RAM.

XP should never have an SVChost using 50mb. Vista however can.

 

Stuttering in games caused by svchost process

Sorry for the delayed response but I think I've figured out the cause of this problem. Turns out that after doing some more testing with all of my games, the stuttering occurs only in Battlefield 4 for the most part (this is where the svchost process would pop up every couple of hours and cause horrendous stuttering), and I played around with some of the settings for the game. For now, it seems that it is just a game related issue and it doesn't really occur all that often anymore, so I think I'm good to go here on out, at least for this particular topic. Thanks for the help regardless.