services.exe gone wild

This is probably not the right place to ask, but the W2K group is pretty inactive --



In Task Manager, under Processes, there is a permanent process called services.exe.

Up until about 2 months ago, I never paid any attention to it at all, and ACPI S3 standby was
working perfectly.
Then I installed TaxCut, and Adobe reader version 8, and services.exe started using all CPU time for
1 to 2 mintes after wake up standby. Very annoying - as that defeats the purpose of 'instantly
available PC'.

No virus or spyware present by check with mcaffe and spybot.

I un-installed TaxCut and Adobe reader, but the problem is still there.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.

cew wrote:
This is probably not the right place to ask, but the W2K group is pretty
inactive --



In Task Manager, under Processes, there is a permanent process called
services.exe.

Up until about 2 months ago, I never paid any attention to it at all,
and ACPI S3 standby was working perfectly.
Then I installed TaxCut, and Adobe reader version 8, and services.exe
started using all CPU time for 1 to 2 mintes after wake up standby. Very
annoying - as that defeats the purpose of 'instantly available PC'.

No virus or spyware present by check with mcaffe and spybot.

I un-installed TaxCut and Adobe reader, but the problem is still there.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.

Have you checked this out?

CPU Utilization in Services.exe Increases to 100 Percent
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328885

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
cew wrote:
This is probably not the right place to ask, but the W2K group is
pretty inactive --



In Task Manager, under Processes, there is a permanent process called
services.exe.

Up until about 2 months ago, I never paid any attention to it at all,
and ACPI S3 standby was working perfectly.
Then I installed TaxCut, and Adobe reader version 8, and services.exe
started using all CPU time for 1 to 2 mintes after wake up standby.
Very annoying - as that defeats the purpose of 'instantly available PC'.

No virus or spyware present by check with mcaffe and spybot.

I un-installed TaxCut and Adobe reader, but the problem is still there.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.

Have you checked this out?

CPU Utilization in Services.exe Increases to 100 Percent
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328885

Yousuf Khan
Thanks -- now if I can finger out what I actually need, and how to get it.

George Orwell wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:53 -0700, cew wrote:

now if I can finger out what I actually need, and how to get it.

The Microsoft article was very clear. If you install the latest W2K service
packs, the problem is fixed and goes away. Hopefully:-) If you click on
Windows Update it should pull in what you need.

I ran W2K for many years after XP was released. But after my computer
suffered a series of unsolvable stability problems, I finally gave in and
bought XP. All the crashes and instability simply disappeared. I also
didn't have to do a major hunt for several driver disks as XP has built-in
driver support for W2K hardware. Upgrading to Windows XP may be the best
solution to your problem.

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non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real
reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an
di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
Per maggiori informazioni |For more info
https://www.mixmaster.it

The article may be clear -- but in a brief scan, I didn't see anything about the problem happening
ONLY upon wake up from ACPI S3 standby. I'll certainly try it.

George Orwell wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:53 -0700, cew wrote:

now if I can finger out what I actually need, and how to get it.

The Microsoft article was very clear. If you install the latest W2K service
packs, the problem is fixed and goes away. Hopefully:-) If you click on
Windows Update it should pull in what you need.

I ran W2K for many years after XP was released. But after my computer
suffered a series of unsolvable stability problems, I finally gave in and
bought XP. All the crashes and instability simply disappeared. I also
didn't have to do a major hunt for several driver disks as XP has built-in
driver support for W2K hardware. Upgrading to Windows XP may be the best
solution to your problem.

Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this
non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real
reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an
di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
Per maggiori informazioni |For more info
https://www.mixmaster.it

Installed the W2k 'roll up updates'. Didn't work -- maybe a little less time used, but services.exe
still uses a minute or more upon wakeup from S3 standby. The time is application time, not kernel,
if that makes any difference.

cew wrote:
George Orwell wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:19:53 -0700, cew wrote:

now if I can finger out what I actually need, and how to get it.

The Microsoft article was very clear. If you install the latest W2K
service
packs, the problem is fixed and goes away. Hopefully:-) If you click on
Windows Update it should pull in what you need.

I ran W2K for many years after XP was released. But after my computer
suffered a series of unsolvable stability problems, I finally gave in and
bought XP. All the crashes and instability simply disappeared. I also
didn't have to do a major hunt for several driver disks as XP has
built-in
driver support for W2K hardware. Upgrading to Windows XP may be the best
solution to your problem.

Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this
non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real
reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an
di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
Per maggiori informazioni |For more info
https://www.mixmaster.it

Installed the W2k 'roll up updates'. Didn't work -- maybe a little less
time used, but services.exe still uses a minute or more upon wakeup from
S3 standby. The time is application time, not kernel, if that makes any
difference.
And the MS article says the problem occurs when files are incorrectly flushed to disk -- but my
disks are not active during the delay.