Restart the computer. First make sure that you have already installed Internet Explorer 11 on your computer. If installation hangs, restart the computer and then immediately install the Update.
Restart your computer and then delete the " SoftwareDistribution " folder by following the instructions on Step 1 only from Solution 4 above. Restart your computer and check for updates. Good Luck! Let me know if this guide has helped you by leaving your comment about your experience. Please like and share this guide to help others. We're looking for part-time or full-time technical writers to join our team!
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How to , Tutotial. Mariya August 27, am. Dotternetta November 17, am. Marc October 25, am. Thank you guys, i was close to a nervous breakdown. But no CPU issue. I followed solution 3 and step 1 of solution 4 and … miracle! Mitchell September 27, am. Hi Just to add: My wife never has long sessions — just some email checking — which means that the search in Windows Update was never finished.
Next time she opened the pc the list of updates has probably become even longer and the search was even farer from being complete….
After having tried some of the suggestions at this page i gave up… almost… Set Windows to run over night and after 10 and a half hours the search for updates were completed. After one more hour all the updates were downloaded. And after additional 7 hours all updates were installed. Windows Update runs like a charm now. And no high CPU usage by svchost any more. Patience did the trick. Sharad Kumbharana August 6, pm. Kwaq July 16, pm. Note: you need to have SP1 installed, but it seems problem doesn't occure before Service Pack install.
William July 15, am. Folks if it helps at all, I managed to fix my problem completely. Win 7 Home Premium x86 dell E I tried the update troubleshooter but it gave me a 0x error everything else was fixed. System said I already had kb so I went ahead and installed kb whilst being disconnected from the router and disabling Windows Update both in the Windows Update program and by stopping the service.
By George.. To be honest I am contemplating whether or not it's actually better to set it to manual and put a big sticker on the laptop saying "manually update every 3 months or let me check".. I prefer human intervention with these updates so as to weed out any er, how can I put it, irregularities with stuff we are told we need or force-fed but actually don't like the free Windows 10 upgrade lol.
Oh, and whilst it's telling me it's found some updates.. All this may not be directly related to what some users here are encountering, but I thought I'd share it in case it helps. Previously neither the Update Troubleshooter nor readiness tool appeared to solve it; it was good old kb Half of me would like to know the exact cause of this error, which so many people seem to be suffering, the other half is just mentally shattered after 6 hours of deleting folders, resetting the update procedure, looking in the registry etc.
I hope this is of help to someone. If I get any probs I'll update them here. Thanks again. Take care. Thanks very much for your advice. This on a pre-configured Dell machine I'm supposed to be fixing. I tried everything in this guide and it didn't fix it however I have learned more about the way Windows works; that sometimes the only answer is a re-install and that guides like this are invaluable for the majority of users.
So again, thanks a lot for your diligence. In most cases your advice has worked a treat in one form or another. All the best. Eddie H June 23, am. Christine June 15, am. Amri June 14, am. Christopher S Nall June 14, am. I tried all the Malware fixes, virus scan, etc, but when I got rid of Windows update service, voila! Thank you! Quick note on the links on my previous post. That word 'Vista" at the end of the link parameters should be part of the link, so you get 2 options only plain 32 bit or stated 64 bit — maybe the admin here can fix that?
Vista 32bit also for 64bit Having had windows update turned off for almost a year and a bit worried now re the WannaCry ransomware thing recently I came here to try and see if anything would fix it… Nothing seemed to work for me here. There are some links there that help, One of which explains why the svchost gets this problem re-complexity of program and recursively checking the possible updates against previously installed updates which by now is a very long list to check etc….
Anyway, I installed the following as recommended from that page… download and install one at a time and 'restart' after each of them. Saw a note somewhere about some browser issues that made it difficult to do this I had no issues using mozilla firefox. Before starting check if these updates are already installed.
Open windows update and navigate to view installed updates, wait a while untill it lists them all then enter the KBnnnnnnnn into the search field. If it shows then sorry, not sure this will help, but check for em all anyway.
If any are missing then continue… I suggest you set up a restore point, Google: 'setting a restore point Vista' if you need to. The restart on KB was a bit worriyng as some service wasn't started and it looked like I had a new skin on everything… almost like safe mode — however on shut-down and reboot it all came back up ok, but was worried for a while….
You are about to find out if this has done the trick! Having installed those updates I wasnt really expecting much, but I ran windows update manually and noticed a definite change of behaviour between svchost and TrustedInstaller. They were sharing the CPU time better, though sometimes still high, but jumping from one to the other like they were actually doing something positive… also svchost Yoyo'd around the Mb mark to The install of the 26 updates took till Restart all went well a bit slow though as it probably had a lot of housekeeping to do , but all seems good.
I Re-ran windows update and Task Manager — after about 10 minutes I had 1 optional update offered… Which I am currently installing. Whats great is that i am actually able to use other pc programs etc now while windows update is running.. Couldnt do that before! Going to try and set windows updates to automatic tomorrow.. Jo March 9, pm. To make it simple… just check the "Windows Update" service. I think I have disabled it a long time ago so I never thought that it will be the problem again.
Or that might be on other computer. But it turns out that it IS the problem. Adebra February 4, pm. I have an Acer mini with Windows 7 Starter that I only use for travel. I started it up after several months of disuse and as soon as it connected to the internet, it jammed up to a halt. Solution 2 got it working again. Thanks so much for this step-by-step! Chris January 18, pm. I followed each step within each solution literally and after I got through Solution 4 — Step 1, my laptop was fixed.
Thank You! Omar Natour January 8, am. Hey, here's a simpler solution: Windows update service is having some sort of problems lately, you can turn it off manually by following these steps: 1 search for the keyword "Services" 2 find the service named "Windows update" 3 turn it off and assign it to turn on manually only to avoid turning it on again.
Dave L January 4, am. Paul A. Mitchell December 26, am. Then we "Stop" that Service after Microsoft Security Essentials has finished, and after the Stop command has finished, we change "Startup type" to "Disabled".
Angela Aston December 31, pm. Thanks Paul, I can't believe it was so easy after struggling for several weeks to apply other methods to XP, only to find that somewhere I didn't have the item I was supposed to click on.
Treb December 16, pm. Rick Shaddock December 12, pm. So like crazy my cmoputer was using CPU trying to update. So I guess that means Windows Error Reporting must be the scornful mother-in-law snooping around for indiscretions ;. Pegsat December 10, am. I've had this problem for some time and discovered that it was solely caused by Windows Update Service.
It was svchost. Another was listed but not using the CPU like the first one. By following it's relationships in the program, I systematically turned off all the services related- one by one. At that point I set Windows Update on "Manual".
Since then, it only happened when I was updating a driver and had to go back in and stop it. So, again: services. If it works for you, set it to manual. Ken December 9, pm. This was a great help! I just used the first part and identified the services involved. It turned out to be, as suggested elsewhere, Windows Update. I am running Windows 7 bit and have found updates are nearly impossible to run as the downloading function runs forever! Jahir December 5, am.
Jerry December 3, pm. I was sceptical about this method. I lost hope, so many times I tried, but I did it all step by step and solution 4 works.
Thank You. Danpatins December 3, pm. But thanks to your tutorial coz it lead me there. Gershon November 28, pm. Thanks to your post I could quickly identify the svchost process and tethered wuauserv service as the leading cause. Followed through solution Nos 1 to 3 of your post but the problem re-occured upon system restart.
After Windows Update installed the November, Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 for xbased Systems KB the issue was solved for good and svchost does not any longer reduce performance of my system.
Thank you so much for your most helpful post! A donation is well deserved. Brad November 25, pm. All the other steps left me with the same results, windows update service hogging half the CPU, and never finishing a scan for any new windows updates when enabled.
Was just about to disable windows update service for good, and call it quits, but glad that final step did the trick! This is by far the best article on this topic out there! Thanks a lot! Alex G November 25, pm. Same here. Thnks for your help! It was Windows Update. Deleted softwaredistribution, fixed the issue! Jai November 24, pm. Did the trick. Thanks for the helpful tips.
Christopher Wuttke November 2, am. My Laptop was driving me crazy. Suddenly I had the CPU going crazy high, the fans were acting like crazy.
Had no idea why, searched high and low for the answer…then found this guide. Got to number "3. Found the culprit…it was a constant Windows Update. I ended it…and suddenly everything was perfect again. Bola Fahmi October 31, pm. Thanks a lot for this guide.. That's the most consistent guide I've -luckily- found on the web, Hands down..
I haven't done much but found out that windows update was the reason behind all these problems.. You're great! Bhiko October 27, pm. Great explanation. Mike October 26, pm. Thank you for the very helpful how-to, I'm very grateful you took the time to write out and publish this useful information that otherwise might have remained in your head, and not in ours, forever :.
David Beroff October 24, pm. Very helpful; thanks! But I can't get past KB, step 5 , because the Windows Update service continues to spin, but when I disable the service, the installation of course fails.
Sivanesan October 23, am. JaCaria October 23, am. Nev October 15, pm. Robert September 20, am. Windows appeared not to have found any updates so i thought i can't leave this on all night. So if you see a flag in the system tray with mark next to it warning of issues mine was to check your Windows update settings as i had changed it to Let me choose when to update earlier. I turned it back on and message said upadates would install next time your Pc is turned on.
So as of right now turned Laptop on took a while for updates to install 9 in total. You should also download the latest version of Windows Update Agent and install it on your computer. Visit here to download it. In case the Svchost. If the location of the svchost. If you want to be sure about the svchost. However, if you doubt that your computer can be affected by viruses or malicious programs, you should use an antivirus to do a full scan. Svchost high CPU usage is often a problem and often got from malicious software and computer viruses.
I hope this guide has helped you to fix the Svchost. If you have any questions regarding this article or Svchost. Fix svchost. By Randy. NET compiler or indexer or whatever. Often time they just need to run for a few minutes then they will autoterminate.. If you right click on it from the Task Manager and select Open File Location you can see exactly where it is coming from. I just went through this same thing with a user a few weeks ago, it took me the better portion of a day between scans, reboots, booting into safe mode, re-scanning and everything else.
You, sir, are absolutely correct. See attachment. By reversing the polarity of the neutron flow we should be able to quickly identify which service is eating up the available memory. I do not see the option to go to process. Correct me if I'm wrong, but svchost is a process.
Go to Service s does not take me to any particular service. It just switches to the Services tab. See attached. The SVChost that took up so much memory highlighted these services. Any of them look suspicious? Not suspicious exactly Without getting into all of the nitty grittys of the services here are a couple questions:. If the answer is "Yes" look into reducing the amount of data being cached. Data in here will repopulate as applications are opened again, though the first time they are launched it may take a few extra seconds to load.
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Previous Next Sort by votes. Mar 29, 27 0 18, 0. I have recently been running into a problem with the process svchost. I have noticed slowdown in games where in the past there has been none. I have read up on svchost being normal and necessary and what not.
I have tried disabling automatic updates to no avail and thats about as far as I have gotten.
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