Re: svchost & Microsoft Updates

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"Anthony" <Anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue svchost
process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor
utilization
reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I
kill
it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full
force
after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is an
issue with the updates service.

I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I know
I
can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to. So
far
I have,

1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and
safe
mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be
sure.
Also found nothing.
2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which had
to
do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.

Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
reimaging the PC?

Disable Automatic Updates and update manually the second tuesday of each
month till Microsoft fixes it.
The WinXP newsgrou;p comes up with a different fix nearly every day for it,
but the fixes don't seem to work for everyone. The problem is a recent
update WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe. The newest fix seems to be install
WindowsXP-KB927891-v3-x86-ENU.exe then install an updated version of
WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe.
More about it here including some fixes.
http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/11/ms_update_glitch/


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