Windows XP support ends 4/8/2014.
[1]http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx I believe organizations for whom XP is "mission critical" can buy extended support but it'll be expensive. I think they still support Windows NT for the DoD for example. I'd advise switching to Chrome or Firefox as a browser. IE8 is pretty bad by modern standards, and that's the latest IE available for XP. Allan On Sat, Dec 21, 2013, at 03:28 PM, Craig wrote: After booting my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 600m) into Linux and updating the software there, I booted it into Windows and went to update the OS. It started IE8 and brought up the update page. I clicked on "Custom" and it displayed "Checking for the latest updates for your computer..." After a while with no results, I tried to close IE8, but that didn't work. I had to bring up the Task Manager to close it. I noticed the CPU usage was at 100%. I rebooted and saw that the CPU usage was less. I again tried Windows Update and again got CPU usage at 100%. I noticed that svchost.exe taking 99% of the CPU. I then used Task Manager to end the svchost.exe process and saw the CPU usage drop, eventhough svchost.exe was automatically restarted. I restarted Windows Update, which started IE. I saw svchost.exe again taking 99% of CPU and ended its process again. It was automatically restarted and kept to <10% CPU usage, most often 0%. iexplore.exe takes 10 - 15% of the CPU. I left the laptop with Windows Update showing "Checking for the latest updates for your computer..." and the green squares marching across the progress bar for over an hour. Nothing else happened. I do recall a few years ago Windows Update doing the same thing, but I don't recall why. Is it because MS's server is busy? Thanks, Craig P.S. I use Windows on my laptop to update the maps in our Garmin nüvi. _______________________________________ [2]http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives [3]http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: [4]http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/endofsupport.aspx 2. http://www.okiebenz.com/ 3. http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ 4. http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
