SERVICES.EXE showing 100% CPU

[Jizzy_Lizzy]

Hi

Just thought I'd share a bit of knowledge.

We had a Win2K Pro, SP4 that was behaving very sluggishly. Task
Manager showed Services.exe was hogging 100% CPU.

By running services.msc and viewing the list of services, I noted that
Event Log's status was shown as "Starting".

Suspecting a corrupt log file I carried out the following steps:

1. Set EventLog service to Disabled
2. Restarted the machine
3. Renamed *.evt in C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG
4. Set EventLog service to Automatic
5. Restarted the machine

All is now OK - machine is happy and so am I.

Hope this helps somebody, somewhere, sometime

Thanks


Keywords: Event Log, EventLog, "Services.exe" services 100% CPU

 

[K]

Cheers,

Worked a treat.

K