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Old October 10th 13, 01:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Ron Hardin
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Default Automatic Update Notification CPU Hog?

Recently the XP laptop has been 100% CPU burning
for about 10 minutes at a time, I think when
automatic updates are checking for updates and
finds that updates exist.

I opt only for notification, which in fact
happens.

But about twice a day svchost.exe goes into this
insane CPU loop until I install them (so there are
no new updates again).

Is it doing some horrible quadratic search of a
log of installed updates? If so can I delete this
log or trim it?

Something else?

At the moment I'm trying turning off notification
entirely.
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Old October 12th 13, 12:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Ant[_3_]
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Default Automatic Update Notification CPU Hog?

This is happening to many XP users. Yes, disable Windows/MS Updates to
make it stop. Manually check updates every second and fourth Tuesday of
each month.


On 10/9/2013 5:25 PM PT, Ron Hardin typed:

Recently the XP laptop has been 100% CPU burning
for about 10 minutes at a time, I think when
automatic updates are checking for updates and
finds that updates exist.

I opt only for notification, which in fact
happens.

But about twice a day svchost.exe goes into this
insane CPU loop until I install them (so there are
no new updates again).

Is it doing some horrible quadratic search of a
log of installed updates? If so can I delete this
log or trim it?

Something else?

At the moment I'm trying turning off notification
entirely.

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