"Gav" <gav@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Has anybody come across the issue of the plug and play service hogging
> the CPU? I have a good spec Dell Inspiron 9400 which runs really poorly
> due to the plug and play service running 40-50% of the cpu all the time.
> Killing the svchost.exe process that hosts plug and play makes everything
> normal so proves that plug and play is the problem. If you look in device
> manager it refreshes constantly, probably stays displayed for 1 second
> max. Anybody have any ideas how to stop this happening?
>
> Gav


A number of the service groups can attempt to hog cpu soon after boot. They
generally settle down after a few minutes or so if left to themselves. If
the problem persists beyond that period then there are other issues at work.

I usually lower the priority of any Windows process that interferes with my
own usage, which is also a forceful way to resolve the issue.

--
Jon