Hi Solaris - I certainly can't guarantee that it will; however, it has done
so for a lot of folks when other things didn't, and is the best information
I currently have available as to a fix. MS is well aware of this issue and
very actively working on the problem (I spent 90 on the phone on Friday with
an MS-type about it), but a permanent fix appears now to be scheduled for
later this quarter. From MS (private communication):
"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 solaris <
[email protected]> typed:
|| Does all that jazz actually resolve the issue? I'm not about to go
|| through all those hoops if it's not going to resolve the issue.
||
|| "PA Bear" wrote:
||
||| X-post to Windows Update newsgroup.
|||
||| Also see
|||
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blogs/mowgreen/index.php?showentry=1071
||| --
||| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
||| MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
||| AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
|||
||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||| Hi Michael - 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.
||||
||||
|||| In |||| Michael Doyle <
[email protected]> typed:
|||||| From following Pati's Instructions. She also states to rename the
|||||| SoftwareDistribution, in order for windows update to recreate it.
|||||| (didn't work)
||||||
|||||| Like wise I also downloaded that microsoft patch, and that also
|||||| had no effect.
||||||
|||||| The ony fix is to turn off Auto Update and remember every so
|||||| often to manually run the microsoft updates. ( which is rubbish,
|||||| considering microsoft is still supporting XP)
||||||
|||||| The PC in which I was having this problem was a HP Celeron 2gig
|||||| with 512mb ram.
|||||| The original windows build is MS XP home version 2000, with out
|||||| service packs. Without service packs there is no auto update.
|||||| But as soon as you install SP2, this is where the troubles
|||||| begin. As soon as windows automatic updates start windows runs
|||||| as slow as a slug.
||||||
|||||| I also checked the same set-up on a Pentium 4 2.8gig with 512mb
|||||| ram, running xp home with sp2. The SVCHOST.exe also runs at 100%
|||||| when performing updates. However, as the PC is a little faster,
|||||| the duration in which the updates are installed are less then
|||||| the first PC I encountered this problem on.
||||||
|||||| so far i can only come to the conclusion: Microsoft hasn't taken
|||||| into account PC's that are around 2 years old running XP. In
|||||| order for people to have a system that is secure they also need
|||||| to afford & update their hardware to the latest specs.
||||||
|||||| If anyone can proove me wrong and can fix this is a champion.
||||||
||||||
|||||| Regards
|||||| Michael Doyle
||||||
||||||
|||||| "PA Bear" wrote:
||||||
||||||| NB: Deleting C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution <=this folder or
||||||| its contents will delete your Update History at WU/MU website.
||||||| --
||||||| ~PA Bear
|||||||
||||||| PA Bear wrote:
|||||||| Try deleting the contents of this folder (or the folder
|||||||| itself) & reboot:
||||||||
|||||||| C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore
||||||||
|||||||| If no joy, try deleting the contents of this folder (or the
|||||||| folder itself) &
|||||||| reboot:
||||||||
|||||||| C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution
||||||||
|||||||| Also see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
||||||||
|||||||| Workaround: Change the default from Microsoft Update to Windows
|||||||| Update: Go to Microsoft Update > Click on Change Settings in
|||||||| left pane > Scroll to bottom of page > To Stop Using Microsoft
|||||||| Update > Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use
|||||||| Windows Update only (check).
||||||||
|||||||| Michael Doyle wrote:
||||||||| Pati's Solution to SVCHOST & Autoupdated causing CPU to run at
||||||||| 100%
|||||||||
||||||||| Pati's instructions worked. HOWEVER, is this applicable to
||||||||| windows XP home:
|||||||||
||||||||| 1. she doesn't state to turn auto update on from the control
||||||||| panel come the
||||||||| end of the Instructions. The last part of her instructions
||||||||| states to "start
||||||||| WuAuServ". I thought this command would trigger the auto
||||||||| update to turn on
||||||||| but it doesn't.
|||||||||
||||||||| 2. If I then turn the auto update on in the control panel,
||||||||| turn it on, then
||||||||| go to windows update and search for updates. SVChost.exe runs
||||||||| at 100% again.
|||||||||
||||||||| 3. I have read other answers to this problem, like it may be a
||||||||| virus. But I
||||||||| have tried two different hard disks, with fresh installs of XP
||||||||| home and both
||||||||| cause the same 100% cpu utilisation when windows update is
||||||||| turned on.
|||||||||
||||||||| 4. Finally: why does Microsoft have an auto update program
||||||||| when all it does
||||||||| is make the computer come to a grinding hault.
|||||||||
||||||||| Can someone please help, cause this is causing me a lot of
||||||||| grief.
|||||||||
||||||||| PATI's Instructions can be found at the following website:
|||||||||
||||
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=906329&SiteID=2