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So yeah, these two issues have started showing up for Windows XP machines in the last month:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089)

Normally I don't post issues like this, but I have already run into this on one of my home machines, as well as 6 other client's home computers (outside of my day job).  Thought you guys might want to know about it just encase you happen to have this problem.

Best way to test if this is your issue:

• Turn off auto-updates
• Reboot
• Run command:

wuauclt /detectnow

and check your task manager to see if wuauclt.exe or svchost.exe pegs your memory or cpu

hmm interesting.

Quote from: Melbosa on December 20, 2006, 09:40:12 AM
So yeah, these two issues have started showing up for Windows XP machines in the last month:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914810)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916089)

Normally I don't post issues like this, but I have already run into this on one of my home machines, as well as 6 other client's home computers (outside of my day job).  Thought you guys might want to know about it just encase you happen to have this problem.

Best way to test if this is your issue:

• Turn off auto-updates
• Reboot
• Run command:

Code Select Expand

wuauclt /detectnow

and check your task manager to see if wuauclt.exe or svchost.exe pegs your memory or cpu

I think it's one of those "Microsoft will auto-reboot for you even if you have disabled auto-updates" updates. Earlier this week, had a few Youtube windows open (with the handy dandy 'quicklist' filled up a few dozen nice finds, IIRC) when I went to bed, come back from work the next day and I'm at the XP login screen. Thinking it was a crash reboot, I login and see the little balloon saying "Windows has restarted your machine after installing a critical update." I grumble inwardly at the loss of the cool/funny/interesting videos I am too tired to remember (since I had 'found' them about 24 hours previously) and go to my security settings, and discover frickin' M$ ignored my "download and tell me but DO NOT INSTALL THE BLOODY THING!" setting, instead now it had magically reverted back to newbie-idiot mode (i.e. auto-load and -install and -reboot without asking you a damn thing). >:(


My next computer will be a Mac, methinks... ::)