Guest kmkx70a Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Lately my machine freezes up for a long period of time. when I check the cpu in the windows task manager, the cpu is showing 100% It takes a while for it to come down. Any suggestions?
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: machine freezes up kmkx70a <kmkx70a@prodigy.net> wrote: > Lately my machine freezes up for a long period of time. when I check > the cpu in the windows task manager, the cpu is showing 100% It takes > a while for it to come down. Any suggestions? Automatic Updates is likely to blame for this. Check in task manager / sort by CPU usage - do you see svhost.exe hogging the cycles? 1. Download & install the Windows Update Agent 3 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464. 2. Download & install the KB927891 fix (reinstall it if you had previously done so) 3. Re-set Windows Update & delete the cache, in a command line.... net stop wuauserv del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.* net start wuauserv wuauclt.exe /detectnow 4. Then reboot and run WU/Microsoft Update and make sure everything is fully patched. You may see a couple of residual svchost.exe errors (check the date/timestamps; they are probably old) but this should do it.
Guest JS Posted July 29, 2007 Posted July 29, 2007 Re: machine freezes up You need to find the specific process or application that's taking all the CPU resources and slowing down your PC. To do this try Process Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx Once you have Process Explorer installed and running: In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower Pane' options. (This will provide the detailed info you need) Next click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage. Then click on the process that's using most or all the CPU %, once it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select: Search Online This should display what out there on the web about that process. Note: some entries like Explorer and svchost may need to be expanded to show the detail, (sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the entry. Question: Does your PC have all the latest updates installed? JS "kmkx70a" <kmkx70a@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:ew2DzYf0HHA.5408@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Lately my machine freezes up for a long period of time. when I check the > cpu in the windows task manager, the cpu is showing 100% It takes a while > for it to come down. Any suggestions? >
Guest kmkx70a Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: machine freezes up I diwnloaded KB927891 and installed it. But I'm lost on step 3 and the rest. Help me out. thanks "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in message news:eax39if0HHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > kmkx70a <kmkx70a@prodigy.net> wrote: >> Lately my machine freezes up for a long period of time. when I check >> the cpu in the windows task manager, the cpu is showing 100% It takes >> a while for it to come down. Any suggestions? > > > Automatic Updates is likely to blame for this. Check in task manager / > sort by CPU usage - do you see svhost.exe hogging the cycles? > > 1. Download & install the Windows Update Agent 3 from > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464. > > 2. Download & install the KB927891 fix (reinstall it if you had > previously > done so) > > 3. Re-set Windows Update & delete the cache, in a command line.... > > net stop wuauserv > > del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.* > > net start wuauserv > > wuauclt.exe /detectnow > > 4. Then reboot and run WU/Microsoft Update and make sure everything is > fully > patched. > > > You may see a couple of residual svchost.exe errors (check the > date/timestamps; they are probably old) but this should do it. > > > >
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted August 1, 2007 Posted August 1, 2007 Re: machine freezes up kmkx70a <kmkx70a@prodigy.net> wrote: > I diwnloaded KB927891 and installed it. What about the WU update in #1? > But I'm lost on step 3 and > the rest. Help me out. thanks Type the stuff I included in a command line, one at a time. Start | run | cmd <enter> to open the command line. > "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" > <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in > message news:eax39if0HHA.4928@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> kmkx70a <kmkx70a@prodigy.net> wrote: >>> Lately my machine freezes up for a long period of time. when I check >>> the cpu in the windows task manager, the cpu is showing 100% It >>> takes a while for it to come down. Any suggestions? >> >> >> Automatic Updates is likely to blame for this. Check in task manager >> / sort by CPU usage - do you see svhost.exe hogging the cycles? >> >> 1. Download & install the Windows Update Agent 3 from >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926464. >> >> 2. Download & install the KB927891 fix (reinstall it if you had >> previously >> done so) >> >> 3. Re-set Windows Update & delete the cache, in a command line.... >> >> net stop wuauserv >> >> del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.* >> >> net start wuauserv >> >> wuauclt.exe /detectnow >> >> 4. Then reboot and run WU/Microsoft Update and make sure everything >> is fully >> patched. >> >> >> You may see a couple of residual svchost.exe errors (check the >> date/timestamps; they are probably old) but this should do it.
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