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Saml · Guest

Wife' has a fairly recent Gateway Notebook AMD Turion 64, 1 GB (don't
remember the model, but it's not top of the line.)

Recently is started grinding to halt after she logged in. Task Manager
showed SVCHOST taking up 99% of the CPU. After futzing around and disabling
things I finally discover with procexp.exe that WUAUCLT.EXE was what SVCHOST
was running.

WUAUCLT.EXE appears to be the autocheck for Microsoft Updates. It was set
to check and download but not install. I set it to just check, but it still
slowed things down for maybe 2-3 minutes after logon. I have it set now not
to check.

I took off McAfee several weeks ago. Last week I installed the free AVG
virus checker. She installed some software that created PDF files.
Disabling AVG didn't make any difference.

Anyone else noticed that WUAUCLT.EXE seems to slow things down? Is this a
known "feature"?

Thanks, Sam

Ben Myers · Guest

EVERY Windows update slows down the system. No kidding. I was not aware that
WUAUCLT.EXE would slow down the system, but I am not surprised. Why? Try
these facts, not factoids. I installed original Windows XP on an HP notebook
recently. It took up about 2.4GB of hard disk space. I then installed all the
Windows updates, Service Pack 2 and beyond. Then I did my usual file cleanups
and deleted all the Windows restore points. With all the stinking updates,
Windows occupied 5.4GB of disk space, over double. I did not monitor how much
system memory was actually taken up by Windows running all by itself. Too bad.
I'll bet it took up more memory, which would have added to the true but little
known facts about Windows.

Why not simply kill WUAUCLT, turn off even checking for Windows updates, and
check them yourself on every patch Tuesday, the day designated by Microbloat for
all the latest fixes, band-aids, bubble gum, and rubber bands that hold the
system together... Ben

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:07:45 -0400, "Saml" <none@no_such_isp.com> wrote: