Re: SVCHOST.exe & Auto update program causing CPU to run at 100%
- From: "Eugene Tan" <TechHelp-at.insights.com.sg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 13:16:57 +0800
hi,
Just to clarify, this fix for the SVChost problem, it's been posted
to WindowsUpdate or do we have to download and install on
each and every PC?
Eugene Tan
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"Jim Byrd" <jrbyrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:udeCIvNjHHA.4596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the kind words, Michael. You should be aware that MS has come
out with a fix for this as of 30 Apr, and I would recommend that you
implement it:
The newly released 'standalone' version of Windows Update Agent 3.0, v.
7.0.6000.374, for 32 bit machines is available here:
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
You will also need to install or re-install KB927891, here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927891 for a complete fix.
For those using Windows Server - Courtesy of Bobby Harter, Program
Manager, WSUS, Microsoft, WSUS 3.0 was released on April 30th and is
avaialble now on the Microsoft Download Center. Full information,
documentation, samples and links to the bits can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/wsus. WSUS 3.0 RC will be supported until May
31st 2007 - WSUS 3.0 supports upgrade of WSUS 2.0 SP1 and WSUS 3.0 RC.
The MS WSUS team believes that this solves all three 'svchost' problems
that folks have been experiencing. See here:
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/04/28/update-on.aspx
--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/
In news:B2949899-FC1F-49D0-A840-2AA986A1C8E4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Michael Doyle <doyle007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
|| 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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