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Old 01-06-2006, 21:30   #10
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Re: svchost.exe 100% CPU Usage

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Originally Posted by Jack001
Yeah, i did that after Spy Sweeper complained the Hostfile was to big, so i clearned it up.

There are 2 "HOSTS" in: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC

One is a read only with loads of sites in it and it's 1.5MB in size, the other is one i've made which is a text document, how comes it isn't replacing the HOSTS file which is causing the problem?
At a guess you are hiding file extensions, and the one you have made is .txt, the file you want is just hosts no extension
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