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Why is winss.exe and svchost using 50% of my CPU all the time?

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:59 AM

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Unfortunately, this has been reported by a number of people following the update and the developers are investigating the causes.

This thread may contain an answer for you, though, if you have peer to peer services running under networking.

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2493861&SiteID=2

If not, please contact support for help:

How to reach support - http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2421771&SiteID=2

If it fails to validate your subscription, select the option that you are using a trial or beta copy and you can proceed to email support without validation once you've signed in.

-steve

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:42 AM

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Unfortunately, this has been reported by a number of people following the update and the developers are investigating the causes.

This thread may contain an answer for you, though, if you have peer to peer services running under networking.

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2493861&SiteID=2

If not, please contact support for help:

How to reach support - http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2421771&SiteID=2

If it fails to validate your subscription, select the option that you are using a trial or beta copy and you can proceed to email support without validation once you've signed in.

-steve

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:42 AM

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turning off the "Peer to Peer " solved the problem

Thank you

Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:08 PM
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Thanks for reporting that this was the solution for you!

-steve

Friday, December 14, 2007 1:00 PM

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