SVCHOST running at 100% when running MU

Hi,

Has something happened at MS these last 2 days? Because of this process
sucking 100% I get Task Manager running to see when the CPU goes back down
so I can do something on my PC. Both yesterday and today the process has run
smoothly and not pegged the CPU and returned the results quite quickly. I am
running MU, not WU, and it is still looking for office Updates. Maybe the
problem was always at MS end?

Thanks

Chris

A very frequent complaint here.

See http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blog...showentry=1071

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). cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/901037

With Windows Update as your default, you will need to check in at Office
Update to keep your Office applications fully patched:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/do...incatalog.aspx
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Chris Wood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has something happened at MS these last 2 days? Because of this process
> sucking 100% I get Task Manager running to see when the CPU goes back down
> so I can do something on my PC. Both yesterday and today the process has
> run
> smoothly and not pegged the CPU and returned the results quite quickly. I
> am
> running MU, not WU, and it is still looking for office Updates. Maybe the
> problem was always at MS end?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris

Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far. It's a
general post intended for all levels of users:


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 but will probably work OK for
Win2k as well. 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) Here's a direct download link:
http://djlizard.net.nyud.net:8080/so...v0.60.0.24.zip and a
secondary: http://djlizard.net/software/Dial-a-fix-v0.60.0.24.zip from
that page's download section, here:
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Dial-a-fix#...C_and_articles .

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.



MS is well aware of the problem and has provided privately two different
responses concerning a fix:

"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."

"According to the feedback from Product Development team, this fix will be
published as a security update on the Windows Update site and the relevant
KB article will also be released by us. Therefore, we just need to keep the
system on the network up to date. In addition, the Product Development team
also indicates that the WSUS 3.0 client may contain this patch if this fix
can released timely. At that moment, we can also attempt to upgrade to the
WSUS client 3.0 to test the issue."

I'm told that the RTW (Release to Web) version of WSUS 3.0 will be published
on 30th Apr.


--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In news:%,
Chris Wood <> typed:
|| Hi,
||
|| Has something happened at MS these last 2 days? Because of this
|| process sucking 100% I get Task Manager running to see when the CPU
|| goes back down so I can do something on my PC. Both yesterday and
|| today the process has run smoothly and not pegged the CPU and
|| returned the results quite quickly. I am running MU, not WU, and it
|| is still looking for office Updates. Maybe the problem was always at
|| MS end?
||
|| Thanks
||
|| Chris

Beat ya! <wg>

Jim Byrd wrote:
> Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far. It's a
> general post intended for all levels of users:

--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In news:,
PA Bear <> typed:
|| Beat ya! <wg>
||
|| Jim Byrd wrote:
||| Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far.
||| It's a general post intended for all levels of users:

Hi,

Both of you seem to miss the content of my post. I had experienced 100% CPU
when running MU with it checking for Office as well as Windows fixes.
Starting Thursday this was no longer happening. I wondered if MS had quietly
fixed the problem.

Are you still seeing 100% in SVCHOST when running MU?

Chris

"PA Bear" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Beat ya! <wg>
>
> Jim Byrd wrote:
>> Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far. It's a
>> general post intended for all levels of users:

Glad to hear that it's fixed. Some new software is being rolled out via
both Windows Updates and Microsoft Updates. It may have fixed your problem.

That being said, most users only encountered the behavior when using
Microsoft Update as the default source for updates, and changing the default
to Windows Update usually made the behavior go away. YMMV, especially now.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Chris Wood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Both of you seem to miss the content of my post. I had experienced 100%
> CPU
> when running MU with it checking for Office as well as Windows fixes.
> Starting Thursday this was no longer happening. I wondered if MS had
> quietly
> fixed the problem.
>
> Are you still seeing 100% in SVCHOST when running MU?
>
> Chris
>
> "PA Bear" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Beat ya! <wg>
>>
>> Jim Byrd wrote:
>>> Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far. It's a
>>> general post intended for all levels of users:

Hi Chris - What Bear said. Hope it continues for you.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In news:,
Chris Wood <> typed:
|| Hi,
||
|| Both of you seem to miss the content of my post. I had experienced
|| 100% CPU when running MU with it checking for Office as well as
|| Windows fixes. Starting Thursday this was no longer happening. I
|| wondered if MS had quietly fixed the problem.
||
|| Are you still seeing 100% in SVCHOST when running MU?
||
|| Chris
||
|| "PA Bear" <> wrote in message
|| news:...
||| Beat ya! <wg>
|||
||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||| Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far.
|||| It's a general post intended for all levels of users:

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> Hi,
>
> Has something happened at MS these last 2 days? Because of this process
> sucking 100% I get Task Manager running to see when the CPU goes back down
> so I can do something on my PC. Both yesterday and today the process has
> run smoothly and not pegged the CPU and returned the results quite
> quickly. I am running MU, not WU, and it is still looking for office
> Updates. Maybe the problem was always at MS end?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>

Hi Chris - Just a followup. FYI:

The newly released 'standalone' version of Windows Update Agent 3.0, v.
7.0.6000.374, for 32 bit machines is available here:
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7...gent30-x86.exe

You will also need to install or re-install KB927891, here:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927891 for a complete fix.


For those using Windows Server - Courtesy of Bobby Harter, Program Manager,
WSUS, Microsoft, WSUS 3.0 was released on April 30th and is avaialble now on
the Microsoft Download Center. Full information, documentation, samples and
links to the bits can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus. WSUS
3.0 RC will be supported until May 31st 2007 - WSUS 3.0 supports upgrade of
WSUS 2.0 SP1 and WSUS 3.0 RC.

The MS WSUS team believes that this solves all three 'svchost' problems that
folks have been experiencing. See here:
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archiv...update-on.aspx




--
Regards, Jim Byrd,
My Blog, Defending Your Machine,
http://defendingyourmachine2.blogspot.com/



In news:,
Chris Wood <> typed:
|| Hi,
||
|| Both of you seem to miss the content of my post. I had experienced
|| 100% CPU when running MU with it checking for Office as well as
|| Windows fixes. Starting Thursday this was no longer happening. I
|| wondered if MS had quietly fixed the problem.
||
|| Are you still seeing 100% in SVCHOST when running MU?
||
|| Chris
||
|| "PA Bear" <> wrote in message
|| news:...
||| Beat ya! <wg>
|||
||| Jim Byrd wrote:
|||| Hi Chris - This is working for those that have tried it so far.
|||| It's a general post intended for all levels of users: