Dustin Cook wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
What do you mean by "create a new account"?

Louise