Re: winlogon high cpu usage...

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Sid Knee wrote:
GO wrote:
Knee,

Thanks for the reply. I am not experiencing and hard drive
thrashing as you were, and chkdsk comes up clean. I didn't perform
an offline chkdsk, so I'm not sure if that would yield different
results. When the winlogon problem occurs I don't think it will
ever come back to "life" on it's own without a hard boot (I let it
run for close to a half-hour at one point and it constantly ate 90%+
of my CPU).

Sounds like it might be something different to what I was seeing. I
take it you've done all the usual virus/malware scans?

Yup. Both came up clean. Two different virus scanners, with one being a
remote scan from my XP box. Malware has been a non-issue since switching to
Firefox (although I still do a scan now and again).

At this point I'm pretty much set to restore from a Ghost image, but
it would be nice to resolve the matter without resorting to that.

You could use Ghost to backup the current installation and restore an
earlier one temporarily to see if the problem goes away. If it does
you could do the Windows Updates one at a time and see if one of them
starts this behaviour.

Or ... you could back up the current installation and then remove the
latest windows updates one by one to see if the problem disappears at
some point.

The problem is quite intermittent so I think troubleshooting will be a time
waster. What I'm likely to do is just restore my Ghost image (which is
more or less a full backup of what I have now as my Win2k box rarely
changes) and bring it up to date with the patches. If the problem returns
then a Windows update will be a prime suspect. And at that point I will
restore again and slowly add the patches.

Thanks again,

Greg


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