Annoying processes that run on your PC

[ghosstt]

What processes run on your PC and annoy you often on how much dam CPU they take up? For me, the iTunesHelper and Ipod service sometimes take up a lot for no reason at all. And as of right now, updater.exe is running, and downloading, and is hogging all mah cpus.

[grossaffe]

just checked my system monitor to see what's taking up my CPU, and the only thing using the CPU was the system monitor itself. I feel like I'm in pretty good shape.

[bicostp]

Is it a legitimate updater or a not-so-cleverly-disguised malware updater?

avgrsx.exe is a pain in the butt. It takes 50 MB of RAM and clashes with the Source engine for some reason. So, every time I go to play HL2 or TF2 I go into task manager and kill it a few dozen times until it finally goes away.

[Harshboy]

svchost

Why does there need to be 5 of them!?

[Aguiluz]

There is a process (or more) running in my PC and it constantly uses the HDD. I can't find it!

[Kurt_]

svchost

Why does there need to be 5 of them!?

I hear that. I currently have 6.

Avast is pretty system intensive. Currently it's using about 100,000-120,000K of RAM.

Another thing that bugs me is the Lenovo power manager utility. 20,000K. Doesn't do a damn thing. It's not the battery gauge, it's some separate thing I never see or use.

[bicostp]

There is a process (or more) running in my PC and it constantly uses the HDD. I can't find it!

It could be the search indexer running, or a background defrag. (I think XP and Vista run a defragmenter in the background when the drive starts getting heavily fragmented.)

[XCVG]

What does SVChost even do?

[bicostp]

What does SVChost even do?

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&q=SVChost.exe
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