Much obliged  C K,

Thank you for that reminder. I forgot to mention events as well. Indeed, for example, 
I have "service failed" for ATI tuner that  not in machine for more then half year. 
Also : "The UPS service could not access the specified Comm Port."  And mind you, 
no UPS on this machine either.

All this errors only appear when problematic svchost  is put to sleep : 

http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=event1iw8.png
http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=event2ue1.png   




On WS2003 and XP I also have several required svchosts, much like the one you mention 
in your OS. 
Strangely, in this W2K, I only have 2, and second becoms troublesome one.






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On Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 9:00 am, C K wrote:

>You can be infected with malware that may not be (easily)detected, a bad driver, 
>bad piece of software, or a malfunctioning piece of hardware.  Check the Event Viewer 
>for errors and warnings.  It's difficult troubleshooting this type of problem from 

>a forum. > >Might start with this link:

> >>Trying to kill a Windows needed service and/or setting the affinity isn't the 
answer. > It only makes things worse.  You will have at least two or more service 
hosts running  >depending on what you have installed or do with your system.  I have 
6 running on 

>my machine and all are needed.> >If you are sharing files, then it is likely you 
are infected somewhere.  If you can't  >find the cause, you may end up reinstalling 
the system clean to get rid of the problem >and take note when installing and running 
programs to see when it starts again.. > In many cases it takes less time doing that 
than trying to fix the system. > > >
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