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svchost.exe is a process that windows runs to handle any services that are running on your computer. Services are background tasks and include important functionality of the operating system. For that reason, you should't just try to kill this process, and you probably won't be able to anyway.

It sounds like there is a process running that is using all your processor. This could be Antivirus software, indexing software, or some service that is stuck in a loop. Go to Start > Run and type in services.msc and hit Enter.

You can sort the services by Status and try stopping suspicious looking services that have the status "Started". Watch your CPU counter and see if the CPU usage drops when you shut down the service. When you find the service that has been pegging your CPU, disable it or try reinstalling whatever software is assocaited with that service.

Here's another method: I believe Windows Vista's Task Manager has a tab called Services that will let you look at what resources the services are using.

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