svchost.exe, how to figure out what they are?

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#1 greatmax1
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Alright, so i have one of the many svchost.exe that takes an unusual amount of ressource (about 28 000kb) and i would like to know what it is, and if there is a way to make it consume less system memory. Thanks in advance.
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#2 Dancing_Panda
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google svxhost.exe, thats what i usually do when i want to find the processes name
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#3 greatmax1
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google svxhost.exe, thats what i usually do when i want to find the processes nameDancing_Panda
yeah but, there is always more than one svchost.exe in your processes list, thats just how it is. And i dont know how to find out what service it is associated to.
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svxhost is a load of programs so its kind of hard and like greatmax said theres usually more than one, 28mb doesn't seem that bad atm im running it on 32mb
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#5 greatmax1
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svxhost is a load of programs so its kind of hard and like greatmax said theres usually more than one, 28mb doesn't seem that bad atm im running it on 32mbyoyo462001
ok thanks, if its normal then... because some trojan horses sometimes use the svchost.exe name because there are others in the process list, and i though that 28mb was kind of suspicious for this kind of background process.