I did most of what you're talking about on an old Dell laptop I had, and after the 41 ( or so ) updates, the machine booted once and crashed. That was the end of that. I went back in 'history' to a functional point and made that my starting point, ignoring the updates that it had just installed. It ran, and runs fine, to this day.
I add this snipped of worthless data because if you set a new 'reference' point to return to before you install all that stuff ( after downloading it ) you can return to your present state of bliss after it crashes (c: .. On Sunday, December 22, 2013 10:15 AM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 19:36:02 -0700 Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:58:55 -0800 Alex Chamberlain > <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> > > wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > Sounds like you are running into this issue: > > > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/exponential-algorithm-making-windows-xp-miserable-could-be-fixed/ > > Yes, that sounds like the problem. >From that article, I inferred that if I just left the Windows Update running, it would eventually complete the O(2^n) process. After my Garmin maps update completed, I restarted Windows Update and left it. This morning I returned to my laptop to find that Windows Update had indeed completed and said I had 41 updates. I told Windows Update to go ahead and it is now in the process of downloading and installing. With the new n being 41 greater than the old n, I can just imagine how long it will take next time. Craig _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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
