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post #1 of 11
9/6/10 at 1:38am
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So I've been Gooling, but with no avail.

It's a friend of mine's problem.




As you can see COM Surrogate is culprit, but I can't figure out how to solve the issue.

He could disable it, but I'm not sure what effect that could have.
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post #2 of 11
9/6/10 at 1:44am
Com surrogate is associated with tumbnail preview. If your friend disables thumbnail preview the problem would be solved.

You will find it in the advanced system settings/performance tab.
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9/6/10 at 1:46am
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Com surrogate is associated with tumbnail preview. If your friend disables thumbnail preview the problem would be solved.

You will find it in the advanced system settings/performance tab.
Yeah, I've been Googling, and I saw that mentioned.

I also saw mention of perhaps conflicts with bad DivX codecs, so I have advised him to reinstall them, from another, more upto-date source.

I don't really want to have him disable features just yet. I'm hoping there's a more practical solution.
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9/6/10 at 1:49am
My believe is that there are some issues with corrupted thumbnails causing the system to spike. The high load would indicate that.
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9/6/10 at 1:52am
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My believe is that there are some issues with corrupted thumbnails causing the system to spike. The high load would indicate that.
Yeah. I get it now, after reading a few more sources. Starting to piece the puzzle together.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-db10da2d1346

So, by viewing any media thumbnails, that use the buggy codecs, WinExplorer causes this DLL to launch to protect itself. Which conflicts with the codec itself, causing the spike.

I think...

So yeah, I think we've got it. I'll report back when he's done what I've said.
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post #6 of 11
9/6/10 at 1:52am
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Yeah. I get it now, after reading a few more sources. Starting to piece the puzzle together.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...c-db10da2d1346

So, by viewing any media thumbnails, that use the buggy codecs, WinExplorer causes this DLL to launch to protect itself. Which conflicts with the codec itself, causing the spike.

I think...
Yep, like that.
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post #7 of 11
9/6/10 at 1:55am
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Cheers for the help

I had been Googling for about 30 minutes prior to making the thread, I just happened to stumble across the better results once I'd made it.
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post #8 of 11
1/16/11 at 10:31pm
For those of you who are still struggling with this I think I found something. I had some large audio files (and video files) on my desktop. Once I moved those to another folder, the locked 25% dllhost issue cleared.

Prior to that I tried these things which did not solve:
- Malwarebytes Full Scan
- Microsoft Security Essentials Full Scan
- System restore to 2 weeks prior
- Removal of K-lite (Base, Full and 64bit)
- Removal of Tversity
- Close all open programs using procexp
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post #9 of 11
3/28/12 at 8:19am
hi there!
i am facing the same prob.. my dllhost.dll is eating up 25% of CPU and disable all the thumbnails view of the file and folder and eatup my speed........ how to get rid of this problum...
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post #10 of 11
3/29/12 at 11:27am
Remove any codec pack installed, see of probem persist.
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