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svchost & Microsoft Updates Anthony 05-14-2007
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Posted by Anthony on May 14, 2007, 12:39 pm
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I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue svchost
process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor utilization
reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I kill
it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full force
after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is an
issue with the updates service.

I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I know I
can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to. So far
I have,

1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and safe
mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be sure.
Also found nothing.
2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which had to
do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.

Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
reimaging the PC?

Posted by Anthony on May 14, 2007, 12:49 pm
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forgot to mention that once in a while I get the following error from the MS
Updates site: 0xDDD009 The website has encountered a problem and cannot
diplay the page you are trying to view.

"Anthony" wrote:

> I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue svchost
> process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor utilization
> reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I kill
> it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full force
> after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is an
> issue with the updates service.
>
> I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I know I
> can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to. So far
> I have,
>
> 1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and safe
> mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be sure.
> Also found nothing.
> 2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which had to
> do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
> 3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
> 4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
> rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.
>
> Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
> reimaging the PC?

Posted by Anthony on May 14, 2007, 12:58 pm
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sorry....the code is actually 0x8DDD009

"Anthony" wrote:

> forgot to mention that once in a while I get the following error from the MS
> Updates site: 0xDDD009 The website has encountered a problem and cannot
> diplay the page you are trying to view.
>
> "Anthony" wrote:
>
> > I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue svchost
> > process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor utilization
> > reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I kill
> > it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full force
> > after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is an
> > issue with the updates service.
> >
> > I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I know I
> > can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to. So
far
> > I have,
> >
> > 1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and safe
> > mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be sure.
> > Also found nothing.
> > 2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which had to
> > do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
> > 3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
> > 4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
> > rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.
> >
> > Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
> > reimaging the PC?

Posted by tomlives2000 on May 14, 2007, 5:27 pm
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you may have a corrupt update folder, stop update service, rename software
distribution folder in win dir, re-register update dlls using regsvr32.
start update and bits service make sure they are set to automatic. This
should fix your issue. i had the same problem. If you have an OEM call
support and ask them to walk you through the steps to fix automatic updates.

> sorry....the code is actually 0x8DDD009
>
> "Anthony" wrote:
>
>> forgot to mention that once in a while I get the following error from the
>> MS
>> Updates site: 0xDDD009 The website has encountered a problem and cannot
>> diplay the page you are trying to view.
>>
>> "Anthony" wrote:
>>
>> > I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue
>> > svchost
>> > process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor
>> > utilization
>> > reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I
>> > kill
>> > it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full
>> > force
>> > after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is
>> > an
>> > issue with the updates service.
>> >
>> > I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I
>> > know I
>> > can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to.
>> > So far
>> > I have,
>> >
>> > 1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and
>> > safe
>> > mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be
>> > sure.
>> > Also found nothing.
>> > 2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which
>> > had to
>> > do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
>> > 3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
>> > 4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
>> > rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
>> > reimaging the PC?


Posted by Muddle on May 15, 2007, 9:35 am
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>I am having a very weird issue with Microsoft Updates and a rogue svchost
> process on my laptop. When I boot up the laptop, the processor
> utilization
> reaches 100% immediately and continues to stay peeked at 100% unless I
> kill
> it from the task manager. The svchost process will come back in full
> force
> after I kill it if I try to run a Microsoft update, so I believe it is an
> issue with the updates service.
>
> I am not getting any error messages, just horrible pc performance. I know
> I
> can just reimage the PC, but don't want to go there unless I have to. So
> far
> I have,
>
> 1. Run complete virus, adware, and spyware scans from regular mode and
> safe
> mode. Found none. Also ran a Macafee and Norton web scan just to be
> sure.
> Also found nothing.
> 2. Gone to the MS updates website and installed a few hotfixes which had
> to
> do with MS update and processor utiliization which have done nothing.
> 3. Manually updated the PC via the MS update website.
> 4. Turned off updates, rebooted, manually updated via the website,
> rebooted, re-enabled auto updates.
>
> Does anyone have any additonal advice to help me fix the issue besides
> reimaging the PC?

Disable Automatic Updates and update manually the second tuesday of each
month till Microsoft fixes it.
The WinXP newsgrou;p comes up with a different fix nearly every day for it,
but the fixes don't seem to work for everyone. The problem is a recent
update WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe. The newest fix seems to be install
WindowsXP-KB927891-v3-x86-ENU.exe then install an updated version of
WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe.
More about it here including some fixes.
http://www.theregister.com/2007/05/11/ms_update_glitch/



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