For some reason, the last week or so I've noticed that the services.exe process has been hitting 100% CPU usage. It's pretty obnoxious. I'm not sure which service it is that is causing the problem.

Some Windows 11/10 PC users are reporting that when they open Task Manager, they notice the Services and Controller app is using around 50% CPU, and sometimes when playing games, the total CPU usage ...

this very disruptive behavior occurs regularly on a win 2000 box of mine. every 5 minutes or so, the services.exe process hammers (100% usage) the CPU for about a minute, sometimes/often longer, and ...

Windows is essentially working because of its services. A large number of services running the background facilitate your daily tasks and operations. Some of these services are compiled into EXE files ...