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?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-28T20:39:13+00:00

    Its A SCAM DONT DO IT

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-03T07:58:00+00:00

    are you a bot? whats with the generic response? the question is what is service host local system process.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-06T02:16:34+00:00

    that prosses is what uses windows update theams and outer stuff which causes it to use a lot of your computers cpu

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-11T17:27:20+00:00

    i did this it was all the time at 40 or 50% usage , when i stopped BITS dropped to 0% so i have to do this all the time i turn on my pc?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-11-15T22:32:56+00:00

    BINGO! You nailed it my friend. I've been hunting all evening and finally found your solution which hit the spot. As soon as I changed this setting my HDD usage went from 100% to almost nothing. Thanks!!!

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