SVCHOST eating up CPU capacity
For the past couple of days one of the SVCHOST processes has been using almost 100 percent of my CPU. It keeps running without a break. Clicking on "properties" for this process reveals the following:...
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TYSPapa wrote:
Yes I am using XP SP3. Now here is a twist. A couple of windows updates installed and then the comp restarted and was still having high CPU usage. I went to install a new version of IE 8 and it stopped part way through the install and said it couldn't finish and then restarted the comp and after it rebooted all is back to normal with the CPU usage.
So what gives?:h
Sometimes there can be a glitch with Windows Update Agent. I would suggest re-starting the service if it happens again. You can bookmark this as a reference here.
