Time-to-time I’ve noticed that one of my svchost.exe processes on Windows XP consumes an inordinate amount of CPU. I’ve now figured out why.
There are several svchost.exe processes on Windows XP. The one of interest is the one supporting all the network services. It is started with the command line:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
While I am in the office, my WiFi interface connects to an Access Point (AP), but the AP does not give the interface an IP address. It seems that when this happens, the svchost.exe process does not give up trying to get an IP address via DHCP. When it does, the svchost.exe process consumes 20%-30% of my CPU.
The solution is to disable the WiFi interface while in the office.
These are my links for June 21st through June 26th:
These are my links for June 17th through June 20th:
These are my links for June 16th:
Amazing to learn something this basic and so useful after all these years of using Windows.
When you see a Windows error dialog that you want to preserve, no need to screenshot it (as I have been doing all these years).
To make a copy, just press Ctrl-C ! You get an nice text copy:
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xplorer²
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\\diane\d$\usr\willy\radio\atc200700613\atc20070061317.mp3
Error reading from source
Windows error = 3: The system cannot find the path specified.
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Abort Retry Ignore
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Cool !
This tip found from lifehacker.com.
An easy walk of two hours. Easy to follow the trail as it is well marked and not very steep. There were plenty of parapentes. The views of the med would be great on a clear day.
The guide was mostly correct. Two hours walking. 250 meters up and 250 down.
Click here to see the photos and GPS trace on Google Earth or here for Google Map.
See all my all photos in the gallery.
A button for Firefox to add the current page to Yahoo’s MyWeb2. MyWeb2 is great for storing a reference to a webpage and a copy of it. I created this button because the del.icio.us Firefox extension does not support bookmarklets correctly.
Click here for more information about this button.
WTF means “Weird Things Found”
http://www.answers.com/topic/wtf-abbreviation
Or it could mean what you were thinking.
My son Craig about Bill’s rant in his blog about a month ago in his blog.
Today a friend at work emailed me the same rant. He is French and loved it (and confirmed some of it is really true).
This afternoon when I get home I see that Newsweek International has put a similar rant to Bill’s video as an essay (Newsweek Essay on France by Bill Maher).
