Security Update 811493 Causes Slowdown?

[Bruce]

Hi,

I've got a month old Dell WinXPHome, SP1 machine. It
runs at 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram. The 60gb hard drive only
has 6gb of data. It used to load programs very fast.
This morning, I installed Security Update:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;Q811493

Now, programs load very, very slow. For instance, when I
launch IE, the hour glass stays on for about 3 seconds,
then disappears for 3 seconds, then reappears for another
3 seconds, and finally, IE loads up. This also happens
with other apps.

Once it took so long to load an app that I hit ctrl-alt-
del to get task manager to see what was going on.
Everything looked normal, but when I did an end task on
each of the few programs that were running, I got a
message that Windows Task Scheduler could not end, and
did I want to end task. I wasn't aware that it was
running, so I ended it, too. All other programs ended
orderly, with no warnings.

CPU usage is 2%. No viruses, or spyware.

Could the update, above, have caused this?

Thanks,
Bruce

[Parcxman]

"Bruce" > wrote in news:04b501c304aa$373c3570
:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a month old Dell WinXPHome, SP1 machine. It
> runs at 2.4ghz, with 512mb ram. The 60gb hard drive only
> has 6gb of data. It used to load programs very fast.
> This morning, I installed Security Update:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
> US;Q811493
>
> Now, programs load very, very slow. For instance, when I
> launch IE, the hour glass stays on for about 3 seconds,
> then disappears for 3 seconds, then reappears for another
> 3 seconds, and finally, IE loads up. This also happens
> with other apps.
>
> Once it took so long to load an app that I hit ctrl-alt-
> del to get task manager to see what was going on.
> Everything looked normal, but when I did an end task on
> each of the few programs that were running, I got a
> message that Windows Task Scheduler could not end, and
> did I want to end task. I wasn't aware that it was
> running, so I ended it, too. All other programs ended
> orderly, with no warnings.
>
> CPU usage is 2%. No viruses, or spyware.
>
> Could the update, above, have caused this?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>

Go to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin. There are many other
postings from users having same problem with 811493. The
fix...uninstall it.