"Ant" wrote in message ...
Ben Myers wrote:
Tuesday's Windows Update took my svchost running wuaserv
up to nearly one hundred percent cpu usage for about three hours.
Wondering if anyone else experienced this.

This is a common problem for years. Even W7 has this problem. I know in
W7, you need specific KBs to install to avoid them. I don't know about
XP SP3. See
https://www.google.com/search?q=svch...windows+xp+CPU ...

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Thanks for the advice. It doesn't usually last that long. I was thinking that last
month's update installed something that might have caused it. I've already
downloaded kb2909921. Just wondering if anyone else was affected.

Ben