On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at an XP Pro SP3 desktop yesterday/today and soon after booting, the > startup of the Automatic Updates service (wuauserv) is just killing it, > using up all RAM and stalling everything due to all the swapping.
There's a bug in WU or MSI or both or something that can cause it to go insane and act that way. A fix was released via WU to prevent it from going in sane in the first place, but once it's happened it has to be manually lobotomized to make it sane again. It seems everybody ends up writing a script to do this. Here's mine: http://sites.google.com/site/mailvortex/windows/install/wu-au-client-reinit -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
