This bug is causing a huge waste of time and lost productivity -- where do I
send the bill? Microsoft's handling of it is unprofessional and disastrous.
The latest: tried to set up a partner's laptop to go on a trip, installed
software updates, and now it is stuck in this 95 to 100% CPU usage by
svchost.exe which can only be mitigated by turning off Windows/Microsoft
Updates altogether (yes, I tried both). They could mitigate by reducing the
priority so that at least the machine would be somewhat usable, but nah, the
only way around is to kill update notifications altogether.
Is this sabotaging of XP machines a not so subtle way to force people to
migrate to Vista? Well, guess where my $ are *not* going...
C_O
<David Ward> wrote in message news:...
>I had this problem and stopped it, but i now have to manually check for
>updates. To sort it go:
>
> Start>Run
> Type services.msc
> Double click automatic updates from the list
> Change startup type to disabled
> Click apply and restart your system
>
> You wont be plagued by the 10% cpu usage all the time but you wont get the
> lates updates automatically, but a good quick fix until microsoft get
> their act together and pull off a decent patch!!!!
>
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