How To: Set Windows Svchost.exe as Separate Process – Isolate Hosted Service

The Windows process svchost.exe is used to host multiple Windows services in a single process. You can set this process to show all nested svchost.exe processes if you are troubleshooting a runaway svchost.exe process (i.e. a process using 100% CPU). Follow the steps below.

1. Open Windows command prompt (as administrator).

2. Type the following command to set svchost.exe on its own.

sc config wuauserv type= own

3. Type the following command to set svchost.exe to be a shared process.

sc config wuauserv type= share