Windows 7 Base Filtering Engine

Hi,
I wouldn't leave the firewall disabled as this will leave you wide open to any attacks.

Can you post a bit more detail on your system please.

Windows does keep your most used apps cached in the memory so they open faster when you want them. This can often make users think that there's an error but this is normal practice.
If you've changed any settings try returning to default settings. Do you run any type of maintenance program? If not try running Ccleaner:
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Lastly when you say 'idle', do you mean when the screensaver has been running or something else?

I'm unsure what info you're looking for about my system. I took a snip, below.
I wanted to reformat my computer, but, either i can't find the windows disk or it didn't come with one when i bought it.
What does Ccleaner do? I don't think i'm running a "maintenance program"
I disabled the windows firewall because i have my own firewall running, and found it pretty useless to have 2 firewalls bogging down my system.
And by "idle", i did mean going to screen saver. I typically leave my computer running over night and throughout the day because i use a DLNA off this computer. But, like i said, i'm not sure that's the root cause of the slow down of my computer because i don't typically jump on it right after start up. But for that process to be using over 1/3 of my physical memory, seems wrong.
Thank you for the help

Also, are all the hard faults normal for that process?? It typically sits around 100

wolfy13 said:

Also, are all the hard faults normal for that process

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Hard faults are normal yes and svchost.exe is important to the os:
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See if the above information helps you decipher whats using the resources.

Ccleaner basically cleans out your temp files, Recycle bin and the like. The only thing you don't need to use is the registry cleaner as windows doesn't need it and it usually causes more issues than fix them.

Thanks for the help. I've already read up on what the svchost.exe is, I'm just confused as to why it is using 1/3 of my physical memory... once it gets up, I have zero physical memory free and everything is so slow!!
As a last resort, I could try the new account I guess...