NIM Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 The issueThe Automatic Updates service uses 100% CPU when it checks for updates when Microsoft Update is enabled.The reasonsWhat triggers that behaviour is actually unknown. I think that it's related to the SFC being disabled. The symptomsEnormous slow-down when using the computer: applications take ages to load. This happens often even a few minutes after windows has booted. When you open the task manager you can see svchost.exe using 100% cpu.When it doesn't happenIt doesn't happen to users using dual-core or dual-cpu machines because only 100% cpu of one core is used.The SolutionThere are various solutions on the web however they're just temporary fixes: the problem always comes back after a while.Fortunately MS released a KB: you'll find the download link inside this post.The Microsoft KB ArticleFor the patch look below, you can't obtain it from MS websitehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810The patchWindowsXP_KB914810_v2_x86_ENU.zipPlease check it out with an antivirus before installing I take no responsabilities for that file: I scanned it with Kaspersky 6 and it didn't detect anything harmful however better be safe than sorry.P.S. if somebody here can send me that patch for other languages (they must be requested to MS support) i'll include them in this post too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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