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Re: After Ms patches last Wed ...


From: Jerry Winegarden <jbw () duke edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:12:29 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Scott Gifford wrote:

phaser-X <px () zeroday net> writes:

I had a different issue after Wednesdays updates.  Two win2k computers in 
my office were rendered useless after the patch.  They were fine before, 
but as soon as the patch finished and the PC was rebooted, the CPU usage 
was 100% and nothing could be done.  I left both PC's sitting for about 20 
minutes and the 100% CPU usage never came down.  Another coworker said he 
had the same issue with his home PC and he was eventually able to get into 
the task manager and noticed that the system process was taking up 99-100% 
of the CPU.

Anyone else experience this issue?

A consulting client of mine had the same complaint.  He was only able
to fix it by re-installing Windows.  You may want to mention it on
NTBugTraq, they often discuss and sort out things like this.

----ScottG.


Check out the news groups at Microsoft:

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp

In this case, I suggest the "windowsupdate" newsgroup

These news groups are peer-peer support, although MVP's lurk.
If MSDN customer, MS guarantees an answer in 3 days or they will pick it 
up.

You can search such newsgroups for answers by going to Google Groups 
search.


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