this very disruptive behavior occurs regularly on a win 2000 box of mine. every 5 minutes or so, the services.exe process hammers (100% usage) the CPU for about a minute, sometimes/often longer ...

The legit Services and Controller app (services.exe) is a Windows system file located in the System32 folder. It is an essential system process that is required for the running of Windows 11/10.

Hello-I was playing around with tlist and accidentally typed in just plain ol' "service" on the command line and a window flashed by but that was it. About 10 min later i hear our Win2K server's ...

'Services.exe' also starts many other service processes that run directly from EXE files. These include the service portion of your anti-malware products, ...

Taskhostw.exe is a Windows operating system file. The main function of taskhostw.exe is to start the Windows Services based on DLLs whenever the computer boots up. It is a host for processes that ...