sc config "Name of Service" start= disabled
sc stop "Name of Service"
The space after the "start=
" is important
You can see service name by double clicking a service on Services screen:
Not sure if the following will solve your problem, but maybe help you get part of the way to a solution if nothing else...
The Symantec Management Client is most likely the issue (I used to contract for them and have seen similar issues).
If this is your home computer, then go to Start and type in msconfig in the Run box (where it says "Search Programs and Files") and hit enter.
System Configuration will open. Click on the Startup tab.
Uncheck the Symantec products then click "Apply" and restart.
Look at your svchost processes again and see if any are hogging the processor time.
If no improvement, go back into System Configuration and recheck the items you unchecked.
At this point, the svchost process that is complaining is probably associated with a web monitoring component, so I would temporarily disable that component and see if the process hogging continues.
If still unresolved, an excellent freeware-for-personal-use utility for examining processes in detail is IARSN TaskInfo. BTW, one of the few utilities I have paid for because it is so darn useful.
After installing, go into the help menu and activate the product, then restart as Administrator (the long button in the upper-right-hand corner).
Examine the hogging svchost.exe process and look in the lower right panel for the files it has opened, etc. so you can get more clues as how to proceed.
In general, I highly recommend looking for something less aggressive and with a better track record than the Symantec product line but that is just my personal opinion.
Hope that helps,
ClaireW
Best Answer
You cannot have control over windows services as you used to. Windows 10 can start any services and re-enable any features at any time without any notifications. And it does that, specially when updates are applied.
You can remove some services (like ASP.NET State Service or Application Host Helper Service) by using the Turn Windows Features On or Off feature, but the main windows ones you cannot actually control.
The only way to make sure the services you want are disabled is to make a batch file that runs at startup and disabled them every time.
Note: that space after "=" must be there.