XP. Vista, 7 suddenly crawling

[Dabbler]

My and some of my clients systems have suddenly started running extremely
slowly, I have to suspect an MS Update as that's the only thing I can think
of that would affect these systems at different locations and infrastructures.

My Windows 7 system crawled when I awoke it from sleep mode this morning. I
forced power off and when it came up it took almost 20 mins for the desktop
to show. I ran repair disk, still the same result. Safe mode runs fine. On
the taskmanager process page it takes forever to populate the list but no
process shows heavy CPU utilization. The performance tab shows 100% CPU
utilization all of the time. The service tab shows a lot of services stopped,
which is not likely in a normal running environment, hence my suspicion the
WU installer is at work here. I am in the process of restoring to yesterdays
backup as I have no clue how to remedy this.

Two different clients have called me, Vista and multiple XP systems with the
same symptoms.

Has anyone seen or heard of this?

Thanks for any suggesitions?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My and some of my clients systems have suddenly started running
extremely slowly, I have to suspect an MS Update as that's the only
thing I can think of that would affect these systems at different
locations and infrastructures.

My Windows 7 system crawled when I awoke it from sleep mode this
morning. I forced power off and when it came up it took almost 20
mins for the desktop to show. I ran repair disk, still the same
result. Safe mode runs fine. On the taskmanager process page it
takes forever to populate the list but no process shows heavy CPU
utilization. The performance tab shows 100% CPU utilization all of
the time. The service tab shows a lot of services stopped, which is
not likely in a normal running environment, hence my suspicion the
WU installer is at work here. I am in the process of restoring to
yesterdays backup as I have no clue how to remedy this.

Two different clients have called me, Vista and multiple XP systems
with the same symptoms.

Has anyone seen or heard of this?

Thanks for any suggesitions?

If you suspect an update - what does the Add/remove Programs or Updates
History tell you about when and what updates were recently installed?

 

[Dabbler]

good idea... and the event log perhaps. I'll run over to my client and check
their systems, mine is already i the recovery processes.

Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

Perhaps COMODO Firewall updates?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

good idea... and the event log perhaps. I'll run over to my client
and check their systems, mine is already i the recovery processes.

Using any third-party firewalls?

Disable them and enable the built-in one. Better?

 

[Dabbler]

Thanks Shenan and Bob, you guys pegged the problem. Comodo removed and all's
well, now I just have to find a replacement

Thanks again guys, made me look good in front of my client

Michael

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome, have a great day!

Thanks Shenan and Bob, you guys pegged the problem. Comodo removed and all's
well, now I just have to find a replacement

Thanks again guys, made me look good in front of my client

Michael

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