The svchost.
Exe memory leak Windows 7 is one of those wild card errors.
Actually problems with taking a look in the running processes and seeing svchost.
Exe have been reported under many different versions.
This is because many different applications and Windows processes run under this normal windows process.
With so many things running under this specific processes, it easily looks like Windows itself has a memory leak.
Now detecting what exactly might causing it takes a little effort because so many different things can run under it.
It is not however impossible to track it down indirectly.
Think back and see if you have any recently installed applications.
Try temporarily removing them and see if the issue is corrected.
If it doesn't, go ahead and reinstall the application and move on to a more in depth step.
The very next step is to run a full virus scan.
Yes it takes a while, but better safe then letting something that you don't know what it is doing take up system resources.
If a virus does indeed pop up and you are able to clean it, reboot your machine and see if that solved the issue.
If it comes back clean, it might be spyware.
Various spyware or malware applications will cloak themselves as a svchost.
Exe memory leak in Windows 7 or earlier versions.
A lot of spyware likes to enter in registry keys and hide or reroute information.
Download and run an application such as Spybot Search and Destroy by Safer Networking.
Run a full scan.
This takes a while yet, but digs through all known files and also the registry keys.
Once you have performed both a virus and spyware scan, take the final step of running a registry cleaner.
This will take care of any bad information left over from whatever may have been removed by either of the last two steps.
Invalid keys in the registry can cause a process to spend time continually searching for a file, and never find it.
So it builds and builds, looking like a memory leak.
Exe memory leak Windows 7 is one of those wild card errors.
Actually problems with taking a look in the running processes and seeing svchost.
Exe have been reported under many different versions.
This is because many different applications and Windows processes run under this normal windows process.
With so many things running under this specific processes, it easily looks like Windows itself has a memory leak.
Now detecting what exactly might causing it takes a little effort because so many different things can run under it.
It is not however impossible to track it down indirectly.
Think back and see if you have any recently installed applications.
Try temporarily removing them and see if the issue is corrected.
If it doesn't, go ahead and reinstall the application and move on to a more in depth step.
The very next step is to run a full virus scan.
Yes it takes a while, but better safe then letting something that you don't know what it is doing take up system resources.
If a virus does indeed pop up and you are able to clean it, reboot your machine and see if that solved the issue.
If it comes back clean, it might be spyware.
Various spyware or malware applications will cloak themselves as a svchost.
Exe memory leak in Windows 7 or earlier versions.
A lot of spyware likes to enter in registry keys and hide or reroute information.
Download and run an application such as Spybot Search and Destroy by Safer Networking.
Run a full scan.
This takes a while yet, but digs through all known files and also the registry keys.
Once you have performed both a virus and spyware scan, take the final step of running a registry cleaner.
This will take care of any bad information left over from whatever may have been removed by either of the last two steps.
Invalid keys in the registry can cause a process to spend time continually searching for a file, and never find it.
So it builds and builds, looking like a memory leak.
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