'The first thing I did'
Did you install mobo chipset & other drivers from manu sites or winupdate,
if the later go back and use manu sites.
Since microsoft update, once installed, searches for all MS software
security updates there is no need to install a third party tool.
Unless of course by install a program you meant MS Update.
"TomYoung" <tgyoung[ at ]yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > Hi all:
>
> This might not be the right group to ask about my problem, but I need
> to start somewhere and if you think there's a better group, please let
> me know.
>
> A few days ago I re-formatted my C: drive and re-installed WindowsXP.
> The first thing I did was work through all the WindowsXP updates until
> Windows Update had no more High Priority updates available. During
> this updating process I also installed a program that also searches
> for security updates to Microsoft Office, though I didn't have Office
> installed at the time.
>
> For the last few days I've been installing other programs, drivers,
> etc. and everything's been fine. That is, until I tried to install
> Microsoft Office today.
>
> Near the end-point of the Office install the program asks if you want
> to check for updates to Office, and I answered "Yes." The browser
> opened at the Windows update site and ground away for several minutes
> looking for updates until I finally hit {ctrl}-{alt}-{del} and brought
> up the Task Manager, where I noticed the CPU usage was 100%. I tried
> various things (e.g., reboot, etc.) to get out of the "100% usage"
> situation but finally gave up and restored to this morning's restore
> point.
>
> I've now tried installing Office a couple of times and each time at
> completion of the installation process - without asking for the
> installation program to check for Office updates - CPU usage jumps to
> 100%. I've also noticed that the notification area alerts me that
> updates for my computer are available and when I look at the detail I
> see one Windows XP update (I guess that just came up today) and a
> couple of Office updates.
>
> So...
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on what's going on here?
>
> I'm *guessing* that some interaction of the update I downloaded and
> installed a few days ago that searches for Office updates along with
> my initial request (today) to the Office install program to search for
> Office updates is responsible for the 100% CPU usage situation, but
> I'm not sure. Is there any way to determine what program(s) are
> hogging CPU resources?
>
> TIA.
>
> Tom Young
>
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