louise <louise@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:4svfk0Frs7amU1@mid.individual.net:

> Steve wrote:
>> "Far Canal" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:MPG.1fd3afd4299f9be7989ed6@news.readfreenews. net...
>>> Rick wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>> One way to approach it is to look and see who they are talking to.
>>>> You
>>>> might try grabbing a copy of TCPView from Sysinternals (which has
>>>> since been absorbed by Microsoft at http://************/y82msb ) and
>>>> have it set to autostart. Then watch for your svchost connections
>>>> and use whois to find
>>>> out who it is talking to.
>>>>
>>>> Off the top of my head, I suspect you will find that it is
>>>> Microsoft's
>>>> WGA
>>>> program module that phones home shortly after booting up a Windows
>>>> XP system. Try going here:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage
>>>>
>>>> for more info.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> XP-AntiSpy is very useful for turning off unwanted M$ crap
>>> http://www.xp-antispy.org/
>>> Makes it easy to turn parts of it back on for M$ Update. Allegedly.
>>> Version 3.96-4 has recently appeared and stops automatic install of
>>> IE7 which is causing problems for many.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you Kurt, Rick and Far Canal.
>>
>> WGA certainly took it's toll on my resources. Decided to stick with
>> it rather than wind back the system to ease the pain of update.
>>
>> The IE7 install seems to have slowed down the PC as well but IE7
>> itself seems to run OK.
>>
>> Time to start working our what is driving SVCHOST sessions. Thanks
>> again,
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>>
>>
> I'm sorry to report that I have tried everything I can think
> of - particularly everything that is different about my
> portable than my desktop (where SAS doesn't drain resources).
>
> Windows update is, and has been, disabled.
> I turned off Windows firewall - seemed to have no effect.
>
> I just spent the last hour using Process Explorer and
> suspending each process to see if it reduced CPU use by SAS
> and the excessive fluctuations. I could not find a process
> that stopped the cpu jumping to 40+ usage, then to 12% and
> right back to 40 something % - sometimes into the 50s.
>
> Whatever this process is, it is happening literally every
> one or two seconds - back and forth.
>
> And, as noted before, it doesn't happen on my desktop.
>
> If anyone has any other suggestions, I'll be happy to try
> them as I'm really very disappointed to find SAS unusable on
> my portable - the machine that is, in fact, much more
> vulnerable because of the traveling it does and the various
> wireless connections I make while traveling.
>
> Is there a more thorough way to track this down?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Louise

For amusement... Would you create a new account on the computer, and see
if SAS does the same?



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Last updated: November 22nd, 2006