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<blockquote data-quote="Paranoid Delusion" data-source="post: 149318" data-attributes="member: 13176">Like a lot of people, a friend has been using M$ update instead of the normal Windows update.For approx the last six months his pc has had intermitant freezes\crashes which a reboot has solved only for a relatively short period of time, but as he is a &quot;low user&quot; never complained to me until yesterday.On testing found his cpu was running at 100%, which started after a few minutes, this was traced to svchost trying to initiliase Microsoft updates (including office 2003) over the internet.After a bit of googling found this topic,&nbsp;<a href="http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831" target="_blank">http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831</a>if you like a never finding a complete answer, read it all. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad&nbsp; &nbsp; :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> If you just want the fix, look on page 7 and choose your flavour of xp. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Always nice to see M$ being so thorough, even if it does take them 6 months and not even a release onto there automatic updates, where the problem started in the first place.As per the Thread, this apparently does not affect Windows update, only Microsoft update.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paranoid Delusion, post: 149318, member: 13176"] Like a lot of people, a friend has been using M$ update instead of the normal Windows update. For approx the last six months his pc has had intermitant freezes\crashes which a reboot has solved only for a relatively short period of time, but as he is a "low user" never complained to me until yesterday. On testing found his cpu was running at 100%, which started after a few minutes, this was traced to svchost trying to initiliase Microsoft updates (including office 2003) over the internet. After a bit of googling found this topic, [url]http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/12009443/m/786004271831[/url] if you like a never finding a complete answer, read it all. :mad: If you just want the fix, look on page 7 and choose your flavour of xp. :) Always nice to see M$ being so thorough, even if it does take them 6 months and not even a release onto there automatic updates, where the problem started in the first place. As per the Thread, this apparently does not affect Windows update, only Microsoft update. [/QUOTE]

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