Quote from hapaboy:
So I'm still wondering why all these Server processes are running on my non-server OS?!?
In Windows, the word "server" can mean a couple of different things. In addition to being a traditional internet server, like a web server or something, server can mean a local program or library that "serves" other local processes. So, for instance, when you embed an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document, you can edit it in the Word document as if you are in a mini-Excel window...that's because Excel is acting as a local "server" for Word.
Well, many such servers are loaded or unloaded, including several at startup for basic Win2k functions, like windows networking, and they are broken into like groups...and each group gets it's own svchost.exe process, and that's why there are multiple instances of svchost.exe. I have 3 of them...
Now, developers who do not work for Microsoft also write local "servers" that can be run in a svchost.exe process. And so, it's very possible that some application that you've installed has one of these local servers, and that that application has the leak (if none of the rest of us are seeing it, that's pretty likely). Trouble is, from what I know, it's kind of a pain to figure out which applications are running under which svchost.exe process. Double-check to see if you have installed any beta software or software froma company you might suspect might have been less thorough in their testing process. Also, Microsoft has some applications that might help you track down this problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=250320