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CPU usage at 100% – svchost

Posted by danovich  Published in Tools, Windows

I’ve often seen enterprise workstations have their CPU randomly spike to 100% usage for a few minutes, making the machine completely unusable. A quick look at the Task Manager shows svchost.exe being the culprit. 95% of the time, the below process will fix your problem. Create a batch file and put the command shown below into it. Download windowsupdateagent30-x86.exe [...]

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