Windows Update problem

[tal ormanda]

It pretty much stays on that forever.

[Tarun]

Dial-a-fix will cure that issue.

[tal ormanda]

That didn't work.

When windows update goes svhost goes to 99% and it dont update.

[joll69]

how long did u give the update scanner? i've seen one svchost.exe instance saturate cpu utilization for 2-3 minutes when checking for updates...a look on sysinternals' process xp tool says that instance of svchost is the automatic updates service....in my case, all i did was let the stupid thing take its time, and after about 3 minutes, i have the list of available updates (like usual), svchost drops to 0% cpu, and everything seems peachy...

i did notice that if i killed the svchost that was taking so much cpu time, several other services stopped..they could be restarted manually, but the system seemed generally unstable until a reboot....no bluescreens, just services randomly stopping and/or restarting....

[tal ormanda]

i used system restore, it works for now.