Windows Update and CPU-load

Hello,

I have a bit older system (PII 366MHz, 324MB Memory) on which I run Win 2000
or WinXP. The system runs quite smooth, but everytime I start Windows Update
and select a search method I have to wait 10-15 Minutes until I could select
the updates I want. During this time my CPU-load is between 98% and 100%.
The systems are fresh and all service packs are installed, too. Does
somebody know what I can do to make Windows Update quicker?

Regards
Th. Balthasar

"Thomas K. Balthasar" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a bit older system (PII 366MHz, 324MB Memory) on which I run Win 2000
> or WinXP. The system runs quite smooth, but everytime I start Windows Update
> and select a search method I have to wait 10-15 Minutes until I could select
> the updates I want. During this time my CPU-load is between 98% and 100%.
> The systems are fresh and all service packs are installed, too. Does
> somebody know what I can do to make Windows Update quicker?
>
> Regards
> Th. Balthasar
>
>
>

gio wrote:
> "Thomas K. Balthasar" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a bit older system (PII 366MHz, 324MB Memory) on which I run
>> Win 2000 or WinXP. The system runs quite smooth, but everytime I
>> start Windows Update and select a search method I have to wait 10-15
>> Minutes until I could select the updates I want. During this time my
>> CPU-load is between 98% and 100%. The systems are fresh and all
>> service packs are installed, too. Does somebody know what I can do
>> to make Windows Update quicker?
>>
>> Regards
>> Th. Balthasar

gio,

Nice quote...anything to add?

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Sir_George

Hello again,

I tried Windows Update with my main WinXP PC (2400MHz, 1GB Memory) and there
is the same. The CPU load is at 100%. I think this must be a bug in this
application. For doing such a simply job as finding updates, I cannot
imagine that this takes so much CPU load. Or is this no problem at you?

Regards
Thomas