Comments on: Services.exe using up all your memory ? and windows hangs after launch?

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:02:30 +0000

THANK YOU!!! After clearing these 3 logs, for the first time in weeks my system actually shut down without me having to use the reset button. Before, it would hang up at "Windows is Shutting Down" and then take FOREVER to restart. Not to mention the services.exe app would be using 30-50% of my CPU and have my hard drive spinning like crazy. I hope this is a long-term fix! Thanks again!

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By: james

james — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:48:40 +0000

All the other forums i read about this subject suggested viruses but i have run SUPERAntiSypware, Malwarebytes, Spybot and AVG and services.exe was still hogging all my cpu until i cleared the Event Logs as this thread suggests. Thanks very much!

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By: Dezo

Dezo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:18:40 +0000

Gold Dust information... Fixed the offend hardward causing the errors.. but the Services.exe was still at 300mb ...cleared the logs ..now at 3mb ...it's a beautiful thing!

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By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:23:10 +0000

Awesome... this terminated services.exe and gave back the 50% of total memory it was hogging!

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By: ServicesGuy

ServicesGuy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:57:50 +0000

Didn't work a lick for me. Services peak mem still at 500+Mb. Methinks you're just passing on urban legends from other sites.

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By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:58:16 +0000

Thanks a lot, I had been trying everything for a couple of weeks and something as simple as this fixed my services.exe from using up my CPU. I have my computer back running as good as before, Thanks!

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By: Weezy

Weezy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:14:03 +0000

Thanks man, was about to throw my laptop through a window before I read this

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By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:24:02 +0000

Yes, this may have solved the issue at hand, but you just deleted your logs.... Logs provide a lot of information regarding the server, so deleting them is a bad idea. Services.exe will hold the logs in it's memory, thats true, so change how much memory your logs are using. You can go into the properties of any of those logs, and change how much space they use up before the server automatically deletes them. This way you can keep services.exe from using tons of memory, and when the server crashes, less of those logs will be loaded into services.exe. For IT people everywhere, don't just mindlessly delete logs without thinking about the consequences...

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By: Louis

Louis — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:13:24 +0000

This didn't work for me. Services.exe is taking up a whopping 645MB so I've been desparately searching for a reason. After clearing the events I get a lot of Event ID 7000 events which are to do with not being able to start a particular service. These are services that I've disabled or not available due to the app being unistalled. In any case I don't need them but I can't stop the event from occurring. Would this explain the huge memory hog ?

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By: Dan Reed

Dan Reed — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:59:54 +0000

Thanks so much man, it works in Win 2003 Enterprise Server the services.exe now takes only 8108KB

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