Solved Microsoft Update may be broken for XP by mikiem2

[jim lin]

Microsoft Update may be broken for XP by mikiem2 at the giveaway of the day forums

Problem: Auto update or visiting the MS update site, searching for updates maxes svchost at 100% CPU with no search results [seems stuck in a loop].

Why: Seems ie8 needs updated for MS update to work, but the ie8 updates are included in the updates you can't find because update won't work.

Fix: Download & install the updates manually, which unfortunately is harder than it should be because MS says to use their broken update site. What I did...

I found this page that lists the contents of their update DVD ISO -- http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41137

Under Details it lists the updates -- clicking on the KB heading take you to the svc bulletin page -> clicking on the link for it pros takes you to another page where you can click on the link for your Windows version. The one exception I found was a 404 page error for KB2868626 -- the link for the XP version is http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40915

Note that you may have to kill svchost in Task Mgr if it's maxed out in order to manually install [or during install of] updates -- instead you might want to temporarily turn auto updates off, though it may take a restart to prevent svchost from maxing out the CPU.

The updates I added manually, after which MS update worked fine -- KB2888505, KB2868626, KB2900986 -- YMMV, you may not need all 3 as I didn't try MS update after installing each one.

Note also that optional win7 update KB2830477 breaks the win7 Virtual PC host.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/80389


after reading this i started Virtualbox with my Win Xp VM and sure enough windows update would not work and svchost was stuck at 25% cpu
so i downloaded the said KB's {KB2888505, KB2868626, KB2900986} and killed svchost in task manager then installed them manually restarted
and boom my windows update's started working again so if your windows updates on Win XP are not working you might give this a try

i just seen this by aztony but doin't say about windows update not working
Microsoft to fix Windows XP update SVCHOST redline issue 'soon'
http://malwaretips.com/Thread-Microsoft-to-fix-Windows-XP-update-SVCHOST-redline-issue-soon





James

 

[Ink]

Thanks for posting.

I wasn't even aware that this problem existed.

 

[jim lin]

i did not know also i did have trouble getting updates on my VM of Win Xp after last months updates
but guessed it was Microsoft having trouble so was going to check later then the other day i seen this
post and tryed again nothing would show up from windows update even with automatic updates turned on
after patch tuesday

i use "check for updates but let me choose" and nothing happend but svchost running at 25% cpu so i went
to Microsoft's Windows update and IE 8 would hang checking for the updates so i had to Ctrl,Alt,Delete to
close IE 8 and svchost would keep running at 25% and i would reboot the VM and it would start over again
with no updates and svchost at 25%


i just happend to see this post by mikiem2 looking at the Giveaway of the day forum and it worked for me
so i hope it helps others if thay have trouble

if one is using automatic Windows updates thay might not even know



James

 

[jim lin]

to make it easier to find the KB's to fix Win XP updates if you have trouble here are the links
to the said KB's

KB2868626
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40915

kb2900986
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40920

kb2888505
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41064




James

 

[Prorootect]

That's why I'm just fine without updates.
Fine, no brainer.