A process called Service Host: Local System is using up all of my laptops resources

Anonymous
2012-12-04T00:03:08+00:00

My laptop has been running very slowly for the past few days which is weird because my laptop is quite powerful and has always run very fast. I looked at my task manager and saw that a process called Service Host: Local System was using up almost all of my RAM. I am running Windows 8 Pro on a Sony VAIO S13P. What can I do to fix this problem?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-04-03T13:31:53+00:00

    "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.  Details are included in the CBS.Log windir/Logs/CBS/CBS.log.  For example C:/Windows/Logs/CBS/CBS.log.  Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios."

    I am almost computer illiterate, does this mean I should go look at the specified directory?  What do I do??

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-13T10:21:37+00:00

    this is the result of my scan, what should i do after this ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-01T05:04:52+00:00

    Go to Task Manager > Service's tab > find BITS > right click on that and click stop. It should stop the download, based on my experience.

    Regrads,

    Prayogo

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-07-28T08:18:04+00:00

    I am facing the same problem.. every time i start up or wake up my laptop i have to wait for a long time to do anything because my CPU remains busy with svhost.exe ....

    as i have read all the comments it is known for me that this problem is caused by the windows itself, no any harmful software is causing this issue..

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-10-21T10:51:40+00:00

    Service Host: Local System.....

    I am having the problem with SH:LS. It uses my 100% network and even doesn't allow Windows Explorer to load my pages freely.

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