Re: System *Still* hangs when Automatic Updates is On
- From: OriginalGorrilla <OriginalGorrilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:01:01 -0700
Understood. I'll give the clean sweep approach a try.
I've got another thread going that talks about my workaround. The replies
so far point out that my system with its onboard Intel 82810e display
controller actually shares ram with the CPU. It was mentioned that by
dropping the resolution back to 640x480, the display is using a minimum
amount. Okay, I'll buy that. But, I'm still wondering if the update agent
hasn't got a memory leak or a pointer problem when its loaded higher than
some memory limit. The machine I'm having trouble with originally had
128meg...the difficulties only started when I bumped it to 512meg.
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
OriginalGorrilla wrote:.
Okay, I'm puzzled. Mitch is saying the "fix" for windows update
freezing didn't work, and so you're basically cleaning a bunch of
stuff out of the registry and suggesting he try again. What it is
that you see that the other MVP haven't?
(I have the same problem as Mitch...my workaround is to set my
display to 640x480-256 colors and then the update will work.
However, when I set the display back to normal, update hangs again.
Will your patch address this?)
Re-registering the DLLs, clearing out the old software distribution/patch
directories and stopping/starting the service makes sure that everything
needed to run the Windows Updates services are presented and accounted for
and 'like new'. Installing the lastest Windows Update executable insures
that things wrong with the old version (known issues) have been resolved and
the final patch fixes specific issues with Windows Update in relation to
SVCHOST.EXE.
I *see* nothing that the other MVP hasn't - it is experience with doing
things the way I laid out vs. just applying the patch and/or the update and
then the patch...
Previously when there were problems with the update services - I would run
the batch script I laid out. That would fix it completely in some cases -
only partially (it would come back again some time later - sometimes a
month - sometimes many months) in other cases.
Then they came out with a newer version of the Windows Update client and the
932494 patch. I had similar experiences when trying just one or both of
those. Sometimes the problem would go away - sometimes it would not.
However - I have yet to have the problem *not* go away if I did things as I
laid out in the post you are discussing - if done in that order.
There's something to be said for starting out with a clean house in order to
keep a clean house - and essentially - that is what you are doing if you
follow the steps I laid out. Making sure everything is cleaned up/available
and then updating the software and patching.
You have nothing to lose but 20 minutes trying it. Seems like changing your
resolution should do nothing - what do you know that the rest of us don't?
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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