Courtesy of MVP Emeritus Ottmar Freudenberger:
1. First install the newly released 'standalone' version of Windows Update
Agent 3.0, v7.0.6000.374
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932494
Direct Download links:
x86-based versions of Windows (most users)
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/w...owsupda
x64-based versions of Windows
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/w...owsupda
Itanium-based versions of Windows
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/w...owsupda
2. Now (re)install this (updated) fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
3. Reboot.
The MS update team believes that this solves all three svchost problems that
folks have been experiencing. See
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/05/15/srvhost-msi-issue-fol...-up.asp
and
http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/04/28/update-on.aspx
Also see
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/blogs/mowgreen/index.php?showentry=1071
(First try the steps posted May 4th at the beginning of the article.)
Workaround: Change the default from Microsoft Update to Windows Update: Go
to Microsoft Update > Click on Change Settings in left pane > Scroll to
bottom of page > To Stop Using Microsoft Update > Disable Microsoft Update
software and let me use Windows Update only (check). cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/901037
With Windows Update as your default, you will need to check in at Office
Update to keep your Office applications fully patched:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/maincatalog.aspx
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WU-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
charlesamorin.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I got a problem... since 2-3 weeks when the update are done, the
> computer froze. It looks like it still downloading / installing the
> update but its not doing anything. When I go look in the process tab,
> svchost.exe is at 100 % I don't know what is the cause to this
> problem. The only thing that I found out that help a bit is to stop
> the automatic update services and register some dll (regsvr32
> wuaupi.dll ... ) and rename the folder software distribution to
> software distribution_old
>
> I must not be the only one that happened ? Can anyone help me with
> this anoying problem ?
> Thanks for all you help.