service host at 100%

[NooNoo]

ewps I meant this one

[G Man]

Dang. Still doing it. Installed update OK, in fact it's doing it right now, as I did a reboot this morning. I will have to end process it, so I'll bring up the server service in services.msc, and see what happens to it when i end process so i can see if that's the culprit... Yup, thats the one. As soon as I ended process, it said STOPPED.

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EDIT: Decided to check the event viewer. Fruitful. When it happened, the following two entries.

-- The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service was successfully sent a start control.

-- The Background Intelligent Transfer Service service entered the running state.

And, now the update manager is running in the systray. Should I try turning off auto-updates? I will.

[NooNoo]

This is all connected, so yes try turning off autoupdates for a while. Make sure the services are disabled in services.msc

[PuterGeekGirl]

Possibly this?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936301

[WebHead]

Yeah, so for me, I've been turning off Windows Automatic Updates on every computer I use and never have that 100% cpu usage problem ever anymore. But that's fine, when I am ready to do updates, I just enable the service, do the udpates and then disable it again. So easy. My laptop is so much faster now. I do leave BITS enabled. It's fine to leave it enabled because it won't do anything if Automatic Updates is disabled. BITS only purpose is to service traffic between the host and the WU server.

A few other services that can safely be stopped/disabled to speed up peformance (some of these are already disabled by default, but I'll include them anyway):
- Alerter
- Application Layer Gateway Service (if you need to share your internet connection, then leave it enabled, otherwise disable it)
- BITS
- ClipBook (remote access to clipboard,.. when you disable it, you'll never notice)
- Error Reporting Service (This is that service that asks you if you want to sent your crash dump information to Microsoft. If you like sending them that, then leave it enabled, otherwise disable it).
- Help and Support (You can leave it on, but it just uses resources needlessly. I always use the internet to find answers anyway. I rarely ever use the Windows help feature).
- Messenger
- Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (you might want to read up on this to see if it's something you use. You can still use the remote connection program even with this disabled)

Also, as long as you are tweaking for performance, might as well adjust your pagefile size. System Propertie>Advanced tab>Advanced tab again from Performance Options>Change button>Set initial and max to 3X your physical ram>click the set button>Ok>Ok>Ok. Then reboot. And if you really want to do a clean job of it, defrag your pagefile with this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...ageDefrag.mspx

[G Man]

Ok, updates off, unnecessary services off, BITS off, lets see how this goes. So far so good.

[G Man]

Ok, that seems to have done the trick! Thanks guys!

Now to slither over to the next section for my next problem :-P