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. -- *************************************************** .~. Jerry Winegarden / v \ OIT/Technical Support, Duke University /( _ )\ jbw@duke.edu, http://www-jerry.oit.duke.edu ^ ^ ***************************************************
