I have never had any problems with Windows Automatic up-dates before , but in the last month, the auto up-date process has suddenly started eating so much of my RAM that my computer becomes non-responsive. I didn't know what was causing the memory usage problem at 1st , but when I disabled Windows Automatic up-date the problem stopped.

Windows Auto up-date would start to eat up memory when I brought my computer out of Standby or after a system re-start. Does anyone have any ideas why Windows Auto up-date would suddenly start to eat up all of my memory ?

My system is a Win XP Pro SP3 computer .

Thanks.

Don't know why, but I can say the same about Microsoft Update. svchost.exe takes 150MB of RAM, wuaulct.exe is also demanding, and there are 4 or 5 instances of iexplore.exe. Let alone the fact that I receive errors all the time.

Don't know why, but I can say the same about Microsoft Update. svchost.exe takes 150MB of RAM, wuaulct.exe is also demanding, and there are 4 or 5 instances of iexplore.exe. Let alone the fact that I receive errors all the time.

I receive errors all the time too.

Disable auto updates service then enable it and do an update once per month; like the second tesday for example