notbob > wrote:

> On 2008-03-29, sf <sf> wrote:
>
>> What's that?
>
> OK, I really meant the svchost.exe file, which I understand is XP's IM
> client. Chrystonacrutch, you can't kill it and it's a resource hog of
> epidemic proportions.

BTW: You don't want to kill any of the svchosts - they're what's
making a large part of your operating system function like it does.
They'll just restart themselves anyway.

You can turn off individual services, though. Most are necessary,
and some will eat up more memory than others. But most of them are
pretty lightweight as far as CPU usage goes.

-sw