Svchost.exe is Windows Service Host. A handful of Windows services can jump on one instance of svchost.exe, so using it saves on system resources.
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Since so many processes have the option to use it, things can go wrong. When they do, svchost.exe itself tends to get wrongly blamed for problems because it'll be the reported name of the process that's chewing up all your CPU cycles. Lately, it's actually AVG that is maxing out CPUs while using an instance of svchost.exe.
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Since so many processes have the option to use it, things can go wrong. When they do, svchost.exe itself tends to get wrongly blamed for problems because it'll be the reported name of the process that's chewing up all your CPU cycles. Lately, it's actually AVG that is maxing out CPUs while using an instance of svchost.exe.