Right so after my recent troubles i decided to revert back to my trusty Windows 7 Ultimate copy. And i've had a glorious experience until i noticed things getting kinda sluggish. Then i discovered a couple things. It's pretty obvious this and that is not normal. I've run virus scans and they've come back with nothing out of the ordinary. This troublesome little process is dragging the performance on this machine down noticably. Note in the image World of Tanks in the background running at maximum settings and it's using less RAM and CPU than this svchost process.