Description of the problem
In summer of 2013, Microsoft published an update for windows XP where after the apply of the update, the computer became too slow because, the svchost.exe seemed to consume amount of cpu resources.Well... officially there wasn't any patch for this bug and lot of computers arround the world become... slow.
The svchost.exe is not something simple, belongs to the core of the system and is used from other services to complete several operations of the system and of other installed applications. So, it is not solution to drop the scvhost.exe. The svchost.exe also is used for viruses also to perform their request actions, so the same svchost.exe is not responsible if the computer is infected or hacked.
So this solution can work on healthy machines.
Solution
Disable the Windows Updates! Microsoft doesn't support the windows xp version so you will not lose any security.You have to disable the Windows Update from two points
1. Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Automatic updates -> Disable them!
2. Right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Services and applications -> Services ->
Find in the list the service names "Automatic Updates". Right click on it -> properties -> start up type: disabled.
