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Samson:
Hi Shane,

Problems with Win XP SP3, same problem on all 3 machines at our house following recent "Patch Tuesday". No updates were shown, downloaded or installed.

svchost.exe running at 99% CPU, tried your Repair Windows Updates tool, logs attached, the only way to have a usable machine at the moment is to set  wuauserv to disabled. It's a workaround, but obviously I'm not keeping these machines up to date with security fixes.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Samson.

Samson:
Hi Shane,

Can you mark this thread as fixed/ locked.

All is well again, updates downloaded and installed on all machines  :shy:

I guess Microsoft's servers were overloaded, the 10th anniversary of "Patch Tuesday" was never going to run smoothly  :wink:

Samson.

Shane:
Next time that happens write down what PID number it has int he task manager. Then run my tool here
http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/tweaking_com_svchost_exe_lookup_tool.html

Then you can see which services are attached to that pid and help find out which one was taking so much CPU :-)

Shane

Samson:
From memory it was PID 1020 RpcSs

All is well now, I have heard many other people have had the same problem since Tuesday's updates, but now they are able to get the updates.

Thanks Shane.

Samson:
Hi Shane,

Problem of svchost.exe at 99% has returned. It only happens when auto updates are turned on or I try to update manually. This is a clean install of XP Pro SP3 with IE8

I have enclosed the log from your svchost.exe Lookup Tool, the PID is 1020

When I turn off auto updates svchost.exe returns to 0%

Samson

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