So a while ago I noticed that my mac was going crazy with some process… I think it was indexing service or some junk. Googled that and found out it was Silverlight going to town, eating up 100% of my cpu. So at the time I just nuked silverlight. Yes you can stop it, however it is somewhat involved. At any rate that fixed my problems.
A few days ago, as you may have noticed, Vista started to puke. SVCHOST.exe was going crazy, so lord knows what that could be… I shut it down a couple of times, killed automatic updates… AGAIN!!! Ahem.. So that gave me back some more control. But that rampant whatever it was was still going crazy. So I did a few things:
1. Killed auto update. I have it set to ask me when it wants to update. I’m pretty good about letting it do it’s thing and just playing xbox in the meantime.
2. Changed the Windows Module Installer service to be a manual start rather than automatic. This is related to updates. It actually installs the hotfixes and so on.
3. Killed Windows Search service. This is the same thing as that Silverlight indexing on the mac side.
Now, if you know me… you know I had some videogame that blew up OSX. It left some virtual adapter behind and OSX didn’t know what to do. So since that happened my Silverlight index service has been running again, and with updates and whatnot I have not seen it again. So it appears that Apple patched their stuff so it doesn’t eat 100% of my CPU. Microsoft still has to get there.
So doing those 3 things restored my Vista VM to normal. No more crazyness. I should fire up Windows 7 and see if they got rid of that svchost.exe bull in Windows 7. They really need to have processes that are easily identifiable so I don’t have to search for days to figure out what is causing me grief! You never know if svchost.exe is something legit or some virus…