Is Windows XP still suspended? IE Patch accidentally save the world

Windows XP is dying, and Microsoft is "unscrupulous" in its effort to eliminate it, and conspiracy theorists even suspect that Microsoft knows there are problems but does not fix them, such as the svchost process that has been in existence for many years to eat the 100% CPU causing the system to suspend animation. If you install the November monthly patch, you will sadly find that it is back!

Let's take a look at the specific symptoms: the newly installed Windows XP SP3, if you turn on Automatic Updates, will almost certainly feign death two times. The first is to enter the Windows Update check available updates, the CPU occupancy rate will soar to 100%, then a short 5 minutes, 15 minutes long, or even longer, the entire computer completely unable to move.

If you are patient enough to wait for the time to pass, the available update patches will be listed, but after clicking the update, the nightmare will reappear and you won't be able to recover in 5-10 minutes.

Microsoft must have known the problem for at least a few months, perhaps even a few years ago, but has been reluctant to fix it. After some experts traced it, it was found that at least 2004 years have been brought up!

In fact, in 2007 Microsoft Windows XP SP2 was resolved once, did not think of Windows XP SP3 but again, but Microsoft always ignored, and with the April 8, 2014 Windows XP support cycle completely closed near, I'm afraid this problem will never be solved.

In fact, the root of the problem is not difficult to find. The Windows update Automatic update process Wuauclt.exe (hosted in Svchost) fills up all of the CPU resources in each suspended animation process, apparently with bugs.

Of course, you can choose to turn off automatic Updates, but it's a good way to look at security.

What the hell is going on?

Since there is a "Save the World" title, there is hope. It was accidentally found that the best solution at the moment is an Internet Explorer cumulative security update patch, which is the October ms13-080/kb2879017.

In fact, in an official announcement, Microsoft did not mention that it fixes the problem of Windows Update causing the system to suspend animation, only to fix a public, eight private security vulnerabilities of IE, but if you manually download and install it, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Windows Update should be smooth and incomparable!

Some people say that it seems that the wuauclt.exe problem is so serious that Microsoft has to update IE to solve, but also hidden so deep, not to mention in public.

Of course, Microsoft did not say, it means that this is not the ultimate solution, we have just used the "should be" this qualifier. In other words, a manual hit on this patch has a great chance to solve the problem, but can not guarantee 100% perfect.