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
    2015-06-02T14:37:27+00:00

    Hello everyone!

    Glad to tell you that disabling windows automatic updates did the trick! But, just the installation proccess is disabled, the search of updates is still automatic. So you do get the notification of the updates, so all you have to do is just a few click to manually install them.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-15T12:29:48+00:00

    WOW!  Seem that is true,  just disabling Windows Update  services    save me  20% of the RAM memory (though this machine only has 4 GB). 

    I was closing other process such as BITS  but didn't had that quickly impact on the performance.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-09T11:48:38+00:00

    Something to note - I was experiencing a similar issue (CPU usage from service host was over 70%), but I noticed the process below it was an HP help process. I ended that, and my service host usage immediately dropped to 0%. Try closing superfluous HP processes and see if it does the trick. 

    how to close the "Superfluous HP Processes?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-08T17:10:14+00:00

    this not gonna help, startup service is normal, but sometime still happend the hard disk usage is high (because of microsoft service) please tell what it is and how to avoid that.  Service Host: Local System (network restricted)

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-02-05T17:23:44+00:00

    Method 1: I tried it. After the scan it said that some files had been fixed but some weren't able to be fixed. Is there something else that can be to try and fix those that couldn't be?

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