svchost.exe eating up cpu resources and slowing down PC.... simple solution!

Ok, most people are plagued by this problem more often than they think. Some even run to get their RAM upgraded or getting a better processor.

Well im here to tell you thats all unnecessary. For those of you who know svchost.exe is taking up 99% or 100% cpu respources skip directly to the solution.

If you are still reading, you probably dont know what svchost is and whether it is taking your cpu resources or not. Press ctrl+altr+del and open the task manager. Go to the "Processes" tab and sort by CPU usage by clicking "CPU" in the column head. If you see svchost.exe on top now and it says its using between 90% and 100% resources, welcome to the most frequent Windows bug that bugs people out of sanity. lol And now for the simplest solution possible - 

SOLUTION.........

1 - Open command prompt (Start > Command Prompt)

2 - Type what is written below and hit enter/return. 

        net stop "Automatic Updates"

Yahoooooooooooo!!!

Now get back to what you were doing!

err ... still here... why?

Oh, you want to know why this worked? 

svchost was running Windows Updates in the background, and we just stopped the updates.