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svhost.exe taking too much memory

Hello Experts!
I have a remote computer with svhost taking too much memory. No tech people there.

Usually I would restart in safe mode and execute
1_fix_svchost
2_windowsupdateagent30-x86
3_WindowsXP-KB927891-v3-x86-ENU

But now its a remote pc....
Please your advice on this... need to do it remotely
Is there any other App that I do not need to safe mode?
Regards,

Dave Baldwin

I don't think you can do it remotely. It seems like a lof people are having this problem this week.

ZamZ0

Yes, you can do it remotely with psexec from pstools.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

psexec \\pcnameOrip cmd

This will put you in a command prompt on the remote machine where you can run executables. Or, you could do one at a time

psexec \\pcnameOrip fix_svchost
psexec \\pcnameOrip windowsupdateagent30-x86
psexec \\pcnameOrip WindowsXP-KB927891-v3-x86-ENU

EDIT: You can add these switches after psexec: the -i switch to run in interactive mode and the -s switch to run under System account.

For more info, run psexec /?

RGuillermo

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ZamZ0,
Is there any way to turn on the remote computer in safe mode (nobody is there in a couple of weeks) and remember the ip is dynamic so how would you do this ?

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ZamZ0

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