Automatic updates utilize high cpu

Most of my XP Pro computers are downloading critical updates and getting
stuck at 73%-90% and then utilize high cpu (100%) every 2 seconds, update.exe
runs on and off in processes. They will continue and keep downloading.
Download size increases constantly and just keeps going. Disabling virus
scan does nothing, also removing it does nothing. This even does it with a
plain OS with SP2. What can I do besides turning off the updater?
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Thank you,
Don
Manager of Information Systems

"Don" wrote:

> Most of my XP Pro computers are downloading critical updates and getting
> stuck at 73%-90% and then utilize high cpu (100%) every 2 seconds, update.exe
> runs on and off in processes. They will continue and keep downloading.
> Download size increases constantly and just keeps going. Disabling virus
> scan does nothing, also removing it does nothing. This even does it with a
> plain OS with SP2. What can I do besides turning off the updater?
> --
> Thank you,
> Don
> Manager of Information Systems

I am having this problem too, with multiple systems.

Any insight on this?

Same on my system, it got stuck at 95% and it will keep executing
update.exe even if automatic update is now turned off (+reboot). It
keeps downloading gigabytes of data during a day. It is really
annoying. If I startup updates manually (from the website) you can
actually see it looping in a dialog.

Tim

This is really annoying. I tried a "fix" that someone posted here... to
re-register several DLL's and the Crypto serivce, now Windows Update will not
work at all. This is a big time bummer. If I can't figure it out soon, I will
have to do some serious reloading on several systems... if that will even fix
the problem!

"Tim" wrote:

> Same on my system, it got stuck at 95% and it will keep executing
> update.exe even if automatic update is now turned off (+reboot). It
> keeps downloading gigabytes of data during a day. It is really
> annoying. If I startup updates manually (from the website) you can
> actually see it looping in a dialog.
>
> Tim
>

Any chance you have McAfee antivirus? If so, see this:

https://knowledgemap.nai.com/phpclie...lID=KB_kb39752


"Joe_at_MJP" <> wrote in message
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> This is really annoying. I tried a "fix" that someone posted here... to
> re-register several DLL's and the Crypto serivce, now Windows Update will
> not
> work at all. This is a big time bummer. If I can't figure it out soon, I
> will
> have to do some serious reloading on several systems... if that will even
> fix
> the problem!
>
> "Tim" wrote:
>
>> Same on my system, it got stuck at 95% and it will keep executing
>> update.exe even if automatic update is now turned off (+reboot). It
>> keeps downloading gigabytes of data during a day. It is really
>> annoying. If I startup updates manually (from the website) you can
>> actually see it looping in a dialog.
>>
>> Tim
>>