Hello

For the past few days i notice that my laptop uses almost 95% RAM during startup. And the memory usage remains high for the next few minutes making it impossible to do other work smoothly. When i checked my PC, i found that the Svchost.exe is the process which eats too much memory. Resource Monitor reports that the netsvcs process with the PID 528 is the top resource hogger. That PID corresponds to Windows Management Instrumentaion process in task manager.

I tried the hotfix from microsoft but it didnt help. That was not applicable to my system.

My PC Configuration: Intel Core i3-2330M CPU @ 2.20GHz, 4.00 GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Basic SP1 (OEM Version)

Can anyone shed some light on this and help me fix it. Here are the screenshots from the task manager for your reference.

In order to diagnose your problem we need to run Windows performance toolkit the instructions for which can be found in this wiki
If you have any questions feel free to ask
Please run the trace when you are experiencing the problem  Since yours appears on boot please use the boot configuration

Hi mmadhankumar,

"I tried the hotfix from microsoft but it didnt help. That was not applicable to my system."
What is the hotfix you have tried?
We can try to apply the following hotfix to have a check.It is applied to Windows 7 Home Basic.To get a better performance of the machine,please always keep it up to date.
High memory usage by the Svchost.exe process after you install Windows Management Framework 3.0 on a Windows-based computer
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2889748

We can try to perform a clean boot to verify whether it is caused by third party services.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135

To analyze this issue deeply, I agree with ZigZag,we could refer to the link as ZigZag posted to run the Windows performance toolkit and then upload the file to the OneDrive ,paste the link here.We will make a deep analysis for you.

Best regards

We can try to apply the following hotfix to have a check.It is applied to Windows 7 Home Basic.To get a better performance of the machine,please always keep it up to date.

High memory usage by the Svchost.exe process after you install Windows Management Framework 3.0 on a Windows-based computer

We can try to perform a clean boot to verify whether it is caused by third party services.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows

yup.. thats exactly the hotfix i tried.. but i was restricted to add that link to my post, as my account is not verified yet.. wondering how to verify it..

will check the clean boot and see if it helps... thank you...

also thanks to Team Zigzag for providing the valuable info and link.. i really appreciate it...

Hi mmadhankumar,

We can refer to the following link to verify our account.

How to Verify Your MSDN/TechNet Forums Account So that You
Can Post Images and Links

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15960.how-to-verify-your-msdntechnet-forums-account-so-that-you-can-post-images-and-links.aspx

Best regards

thank you once again. will use that wiki to verify the account manually if necessarily required from hereon. else let it get verified in course of time as said there.