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dllhost.exe eating up CPU
I have Vista Home Premium with a E6600 Core 2 Duo (@ 2.4GHz) and 2GB RAM.
Yet, when I look at the Windows Task Manager, it shows my CPU usage constantly hovering around 50-60%, even if I'm not doing anything.
The culprit is something called dllhost.exe, which is shown using 50% of my CPU. It's described as a COM Surrogate.
I briefly searched Google and got conflicting answers. Some sites said that dllhost.exe is a file that's a vital part of Windows. Other sites said it may be a virus or spyware. I've run all my virus and spyware programs and they've come up with nothing.
I can't imagine why any component of Vista would require half of my CPU's performance.
Any help?
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