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sorry if this is off topic: When I came
home Tuesday night I found my grabber-notebook very slow, with the fan
going at full throttle. Task-manager showed an "svchost" instance hogging
all of the CPU. A bit of Google search indicated that the Windows
update service may be the culprit, which indeed turned out to be the
case. I attempted a couple of published fixes without permanent
success. In the end the only way to revert to normal operation seemed to
be to disable updates alltogether, and reboot.
Yesterday night, the very same thing happened to my
"other" netbook which is nowadays used for Op-8, WSPR, 74 kHz, transmitting, and
emails. Both machines have been running fine so far with WinXP (SP3), IE 6
browsers, and all past updates.
I am wondering whether anyone else in the group has
suffered from this recently, and perhaps found a cure allowing to
re-enable Windows updates.
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
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