AmesMUG: Parallels going bezerk since 3188

[John Rearick]

I found that someone was having similar issues with regular Windows  
boxes.  This is what he says he did to fix it:

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891/
>
> Download this hotfix.
> Restart windows.
> Login and wait for svchost.exe to stop going berserk (this may take  
> up to 30 minutes).**** Install the hotfix.
> Restart the computer.
>
> **** Based on some things I've heard svchost may not slow down, or  
> it may crash.  I have not tested the hotfix while svchost is going  
> crazy, but it may still work.  However, if it does eventually die  
> down, my recommendation (as stated above) is to wait for it.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dan Harkness
> Iowa State University
> Ag Computer Support
> 301 Curtiss Hall
> 515-294-1927

John



On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:44 PM, John Rearick wrote:

> Yeah, I have experienced this before as well.  I don't know why it  
> happened, but it has only done it to me a couple of times, usually  
> not long after booting up.  I found the same stuff about  
> svchost.exe, so I just let it run.  After a couple of days, it  
> seems to have disappeared.  I run Windows every day, all day  
> because I use it for mail at work (Outlook > Entourage).  It did it  
> on my iMac at work on two different Windows installations and at  
> least once on my MBP.  Are there any more Windows updates available  
> within the past week or two?
>
> John
>
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Colin Wheeler wrote:
>
>> Hey everybody
>>
>> I just want to know if anybody else is experiencing this. I can't  
>> be sure but I believe before the 3188 update windows xp pro  
>> running under parallels ran just fine. I could start it up and  
>> right away dig into my homework. But sometime ago whenever I  
>> started XP pro up my CPU's went bezerk. Since Parallels only knows  
>> about 1 core in my 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo it had 1 process called  
>> svchost.exe that was taking up 97-98% cpu usage, combined with the  
>> apps im running on OS X it could take 40-70% on each cpu core.
>>
>> I looked it up and found http://www.liutilities.com/products/ 
>> wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/ which says it's some process  
>> that helps with executing commands from dll's and shouldn't be  
>> killed. Even on a top of the line Core 2 Duo it feels like it  
>> takes a minute or two for this process hogging to get done so I  
>> can resume using XP without the applications responding slowly.
>>
>> I didn't install anything new on windows and generally only go to  
>> DMACC's online page for homework, certainly nothing that should  
>> hog up this much cpu time. I have ClamWin installed and will  
>> probably scan my hole system, but is anybody else experiencing  
>> anything like this?
>>
>> From Colin
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