Re: Still having svchost.exe CPU problems

Hi Miha - You may wish to try the following - it's been of help to a number
of folks. This is a general post for users at all levels:


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.



MS is aware of the problem. The following is from a private communication
about this:

"I regret to say that I was told that this known issue requires too much
change to be implemented in a hotfix. A change will instead be implemented
in the next Automatic Updates client, which we are planning to release in Q2
this year."


--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In news:444DF7A7-3995-4493-8D58-9DF7D009F620@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Miha <Miha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
|| I'm yet another one with same problem. We have WSUS and lately just
|| some random PCs are experiencing 100% utilization for really long
|| period like 15 minutes or even more. Explorer (shell) is frozen so
|| only thing that works at that time is reset button. But I think we
|| might have temp solution for this problem.
||
|| Pretty much we all have XP desktop machines and Office 2003. On WSUS
|| we have enabled Office updates. Now I wonder what would happen if we
|| would remove Office updates from detection on WSUS server and delete
|| all Office updates from WSUS database (if required). This might help
|| since clients wouldn't scan for Office updates because they won't be
|| on WSUS. I will try this since we already installed hot fix KB927891
|| on those machines with problems and see if helps.
||
|| And this is interestingly. I called local MS tech support and they
|| said few others called with same issue and WSUS. What I suspect is
|| that others don't care about updating so much and they scan only for
|| security and critical updates for Windows. Or they might not be
|| aware that updates exist for other things then Windows too.
||
|| I will try to disable Office on WSUS and try to test this on few
|| PCs. It would be nice that others with same configuration (XP +
|| Office + WSUS) would try this same thing too and then see if this
|| solves the problem.
||
||
|| Miha


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