Windows XP svchost.exe problems. Cannot find the latest updates for windows xp.

Hello, this is my first time on the Microsoft Community page.

I have a very strange problem with automatic updates svchost.exe and windows. I know that automatic update of windows, has been known to cause problems on XP and there is thus CPU utilization of memory leaks. Last night, I tried to install the latest windows XP updates, with automatic tool. The tool hanged during the process. Not sure why exactly. I never had a problem with it. I've been running Xp SP 3 for more than five years. In any case, I rebooted my system and checked to see if the updates actually treatment. They do not have. Then I went to the windowsupdate.microsoft site. I was trying to these updates. The scan never completed, he just constantly checked, for about 45 minutes. I decided to do some research. I found the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder "fix" online. He kicked, I renamed the file. And then disabled auto updates and restarted my computer. After windows starts, I re-activated automatic updates and waited. Nothing happened, so I did some research more. I noticed that svchost.exe uses about 25% the use of the processor. Normally my treated systemidle is 99%. I used Process explore and isolated the wuauclt.exe under the svchost.exe file. When I disable automatic updates executable, it is up to a full 99%.

I'm not sure why it uses 25%, when I look at the actual use of the memory for the wuauclt.exe, it is only using about 17 k of memory. Which is quite low. I have not turned on microsoft update, starting in the configurations of parameters at windowsupdate. I know that in the past, that has been a problem and swallowed up system resources.

Any advice would be helpful. Thank you in advance.

There are a lot of threads on this forum - and many others - this problem - just try to do a Google search for UPDATES of XP SVCHOST - hits now more than 8 million.

But to save you the trouble of tracking down the fix OK here is the short version

1. disable automatic updates using Control Panel icon

2. restart the computer - SVCHOST is now not going crazy

3. check which version of Internet Explorer you have installed IE8, IE7 or IE6

4. download and install - the links below - the good update for Internet Explorer.

Assuming you have Windows XP 32 bits here are the direct download links:

IE8: IE8-WindowsXP-KB2898785 - x 86 - ENU.exe
http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=41404

IE7: IE7-WindowsXP-KB2898785 - x 86 - ENU.exe
http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=41442

IE6: WindowsXP-KB2898785 - x 86 - ENU.exe
http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=41458

5. Once installed, you can reactivate the automatic updates and using Windows Update.

Note: The bug also affects access via Windows/Microsoft Update Web site.

KB2898785 is the "Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer" (December 10, 2013)

There is a bug in the function of automatic update under XP running the SVCHOST process at full CPU load (100% or 50% or 25% depending on the number of CPU cores you have). If you have a Quad core CPU the bug works the CPU at 25% (a carrot out of four) and eventually battles through a conclusion - but if your computer is a single old Celeron or Pentium bug works the CPU chip at 100% load for many, many h/solid.

Faster your processor and RAM than you seem to make a radical difference to the actual times are waiting for you maybe search for updates complete. Most of the old core systems were never designed to deal with this kind of situation and can easily overheat. This is especially true of laptops and desktop systems older where the radiator can be partially blocked with fluff and hairs of animals - which could cause blockages or stops!

Microsoft said last month that the updates of Internet Explorer are treated differently from all the other updates - which is originally the XP update engine run so slowly as to appear frozen. If the update service finds that you don't have the latest version of IE that is currently available, it starts to search the entire tree of updates of IE to see what it takes - rather than offering just the cumulative current update for your system.

But if you manually install the update yourself update Internet Explorer service is fully updated and is not search for updates of IE. But until Ms. fix it will still occur whenever a new update is published.

MS said that intend to prune the IE updates database so that only the main cumulative updates have been offered when a search has been launched - it did not in time for the update as it should of November and obviously has not arrived or worked either in time for the December Update!

MS say they hope to have a fix before the January updates are released (Patch Tuesday) - that the problem will be activated once the next update Cumulative of IE is released.

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