Re: SVCHOST.exe & Auto update program causing CPU to run at 100%
- From: Michael Doyle <doyle007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 05:04:04 -0700
Hey Everyone,
Jim Byrd's fix on the 15/4/2007 worked successfully. I never got back after
a few days cause I wanted to wait a few weeks, download some more updates and
see what happens. Everything runs fine now. Thanks a million Jim Byrd, I
recomend you go and work for microsoft.
--
Regards
Michael Doyle
"Jim Byrd" wrote:
Hi Michael - How knowledgable about doing things are you? Do you know how.
to
start and stop services? How to run a .cmd file? If not, you'll need
access to someone who does to avoid problems. The following assumes you're
on Windows XP. If you're confident about what you're doing, then try the
following first - only if it doesn't work, then there's another level of
stuff that can be done following:
1. Stop and Disable Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer
Service and the Cryptographic Service.
2. Rename the folder %SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution to
%SystemRoot%\OldSoftwareDistribution
3. Open Notepad and create a file containing the following:
REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL
Save this file as 'Wudll.cmd' (without the quotes) to any convenient
location then exit Notepad and double click on the file you just saved. You
should get a 'Sucess' mesage for each of the .dll's listed above.
4. Now Re-enable to Automatic status and then Start each of the services
you stopped before - Automatic Updates, Background Intelligent Transfer
Service and the Cryptographic Service.
5. Now Reboot. Now Reboot Again. (Yes, twice.)
See if that solves it - give it a couple of days. If so, then you can
delete 'OldSoftwareDistribution'. I would request that you post back with
your results. _Only if the problem does re-occur_, then do the following
_exactly_:
1. Go to http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix and download Dial-a-fix
v0.60.0.24 (2006-10-27)
2. Unzip it to a new folder at root with any name, e.g.
c:\Dial-a-fix-v0.60.0.24
3. Double click on Dial-a-fix.exe in that folder.
4. Click on the following:
Options/tooltips (just to get an idea of what it does in each section.
:) )
Both boxes under Prep
The 'all' (top) box for Sections 2, 3 and 4 (which will automatically
be set when you check 3)
In Section 5, 'Programming cores/runtimes' and
'Explorer/IE/OE/shell/WMP' only.
Click 'Go' . (Some of the re-registrations may take what seems like a
long time for some .dll's - Don't be impatient.)
5. Reboot (if Dial-a-fix doesn't do it automatically at the end). Now
Reboot Again. (Yes, twice.)
See if that does the trick, and, again please post back with your
experience.
--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
In news:B0A54111-9CA7-4D63-9F1A-2E139D6B0C20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Michael Doyle <doyle007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
|| From following Pati's Instructions. She also states to rename the
|| SoftwareDistribution, in order for windows update to recreate it.
|| (didn't work)
||
|| Like wise I also downloaded that microsoft patch, and that also had
|| no effect.
||
|| The ony fix is to turn off Auto Update and remember every so often to
|| manually run the microsoft updates. ( which is rubbish, considering
|| microsoft is still supporting XP)
||
|| The PC in which I was having this problem was a HP Celeron 2gig with
|| 512mb ram.
|| The original windows build is MS XP home version 2000, with out
|| service packs. Without service packs there is no auto update. But as
|| soon as you install SP2, this is where the troubles begin. As soon
|| as windows automatic updates start windows runs as slow as a slug.
||
|| I also checked the same set-up on a Pentium 4 2.8gig with 512mb ram,
|| running xp home with sp2. The SVCHOST.exe also runs at 100% when
|| performing updates. However, as the PC is a little faster, the
|| duration in which the updates are installed are less then the first
|| PC I encountered this problem on.
||
|| so far i can only come to the conclusion: Microsoft hasn't taken into
|| account PC's that are around 2 years old running XP. In order for
|| people to have a system that is secure they also need to afford &
|| update their hardware to the latest specs.
||
|| If anyone can proove me wrong and can fix this is a champion.
||
||
|| Regards
|| Michael Doyle
||
||
|| "PA Bear" wrote:
||
||| NB: Deleting C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution <=this folder or its
||| contents will delete your Update History at WU/MU website.
||| --
||| ~PA Bear
|||
||| PA Bear wrote:
|||| Try deleting the contents of this folder (or the folder itself) &
|||| reboot:
||||
|||| C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore
||||
|||| If no joy, try deleting the contents of this folder (or the folder
|||| itself) &
|||| reboot:
||||
|||| C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution
||||
|||| Also see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
||||
|||| Workaround: Change the default from Microsoft Update to Windows
|||| Update: Go to Microsoft Update > Click on Change Settings in left
|||| pane > Scroll to bottom of page > To Stop Using Microsoft Update >
|||| Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use Windows Update
|||| only (check).
||||
|||| Michael Doyle wrote:
||||| Pati's Solution to SVCHOST & Autoupdated causing CPU to run at
||||| 100%
|||||
||||| Pati's instructions worked. HOWEVER, is this applicable to
||||| windows XP home:
|||||
||||| 1. she doesn't state to turn auto update on from the control
||||| panel come the
||||| end of the Instructions. The last part of her instructions states
||||| to "start
||||| WuAuServ". I thought this command would trigger the auto update
||||| to turn on
||||| but it doesn't.
|||||
||||| 2. If I then turn the auto update on in the control panel, turn
||||| it on, then
||||| go to windows update and search for updates. SVChost.exe runs at
||||| 100% again.
|||||
||||| 3. I have read other answers to this problem, like it may be a
||||| virus. But I
||||| have tried two different hard disks, with fresh installs of XP
||||| home and both
||||| cause the same 100% cpu utilisation when windows update is turned
||||| on.
|||||
||||| 4. Finally: why does Microsoft have an auto update program when
||||| all it does
||||| is make the computer come to a grinding hault.
|||||
||||| Can someone please help, cause this is causing me a lot of grief.
|||||
||||| PATI's Instructions can be found at the following website:
|||||
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=906329&SiteID=2
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