I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I was trying to diagnose a prod server crashing this very Wednesday and seeing the lines of svchost.exe is so fucking maddening... I'm glad ProcessExplorer was there to give some useful fucking info, at least.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago

Well, it could be an executable disguising itself as svchost. Pretty common for malware or video game cheats to name their executables svchost.exe to hide from anti-virus/anticheat

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 43 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

just kill it

[–] youngalfred@lemmy.zip 53 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, I shot my gaming rig with a 6 bore shotgun…. And then set it on fire.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Instructions may have been unclear, but you got the gist of it.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago

Hole-y and on fire:

"This program is preventing Windows from shutting down:"

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

I used to, all the time

This was in the XP days so I didn't know how to figure out which service it was, I was a kid. But some svchost process would manifest as a task to switch to in the alt + tab switcher and made the computer slow and weird. I just killed it. No idea if it was a bug or a virus.

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 13 points 11 hours ago

Probably the indexing service, it's always the indexing service.