Re: svchosts.exe multiple instances

Vista has had a lot of system services that used to be standalone moved into
SVCHOST processes for performance reasons. So, you are going to have many
more of them than you would in XP for instance. Nothing to worry about.

"LeeG" <lee.gorton(removethis)@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4C60CAB8-9531-4C03-8E38-C0F2300F0DB5@microsoft.com...
> Is it normal to have 12 instances of svchost running.
>
> I have 4 instances of svchost.exe (LocalServiceNetworkRestricted) of which
> one has a commit value of 66.5MB of memory.
>
> The rest are as follows (label noted only):
> - NetworkService
> - LocalService
> - DcomLaunch
> - imgsrv
> - LocalServiceNoNetwork
> - netsvcs
> - rpcss
> - werSvcGroup
>
> Are all these necessary? I ask because when I try to play an AVI file I
> get
> a message that I have low memory even though I am only using 50% of my
> available memory and the memory usage of some of these files have the
> largest
> allocation.
>
> Lee
>
> Vista RC1 x64
> AMD64 3000+
> Nvidia n6600 256ram
> 1GB ram
> Modem - ethernet