My computer is pretty old, maybe eight or nine years old. But i don't ask a lot of it, and it has always worked well for what i need it to do. i am running Windows 7 and keep it clean and virus free. But recently, within the past few weeks, it has started to run very slowly.
It had been a couple years since i last formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows, so i just went ahead and did that. It did not help.
So i checked Windows Task Manager and nearly all my CPU usage is going to one of the svchost.exe processes. The services it is associated with are wuauserv, Winmgmt, Themes, ShellHWDetection, SENS, Schedule, ProfSvc, Lanmanserver, iphlpsvc, gpsvc, Browser, Appinfo and AeLookupSvc.
i set the priority of that process to Below Normal and other programs on my computer are running properly again. But as my CPU usage is still constantly 100% i am assuming that is not a real solution. Can anyone tell me how to actually solve the problem?

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