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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by pjc50 on Monday March 06, 2017 @06:16AM (#13801951)
Svchost.exe is a bonkers bit of design that goes against the simple, basic separation of concerns that OS-level processes provide by running multiple "services" as DLLs loaded into one process. This makes it extremely hard to pinpoint which service is faulty.

Apparently the magic runes are

    sc config wuauserv type= own
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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by midnitewarrior on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:25AM (#13802222)
Just go into Task Manager, Details tab, right click on the columns and add "Command Line". Now you can see what each svchost does.
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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by pjc50 on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:23AM (#13802449)
That helps a little, but fundamentally the runtime of a module is still "billed" to the svchost.exe process as a whole - so if a particular one is at 100% of a cpu, you can't tell which module is causing the problem.
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