[windows2000] Re: Downgrade from MS Update to Windows Update

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 09:26:55 +0200

Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Friday, May 04, 2007 4:42 PM:

Basically yes. Everybody on the 'net having had the same problem I have now,
sooner or later refer to that hotfix and the deletion of the db-file you
mentioned earlier.


> Are you talking abou this hotfix it refers to?
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891
> Jim
> 
> 
> On 5/4/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>       Sorin Srbu <mailto:sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Friday, May 04,
2007
>       3:13 PM:
> 
>       This one helped a bit as well.
> 
>
<<<http://www.authsecu.com/nntp/conversation-microsoft-public-security.php?num
>       ero=92380>>>
> 
> 
>       > Jim Kenzig ThinHelp.com <> wrote on Friday, May 04, 2007 3:03 PM:
>       >
>       > I'll give it a go. Thx for the hints!
>       >
>       >
>       >> Just fix the actual issue...the updates db can get corrupted follow
the
>       >> procedure below on fhe workstation to make them work properly
again:
>       >>
>       >> Log in as local admin
>       >>
>       >> Start, Run, net stop wuauserv
>       >>
>       >> Delete the datastore folder under c:\windows\softwaredistribution\
>       >>
>       >> Start, Run, net start wuauserv
>       >>
>       >> Reboot
>       >>
>       >> The updated database will be recreated.
>       >> This will make windows update run quicker and perform properly.
>       >> JK
>       >>
>       >>
>       >> On 5/4/07, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>       >>
>       >>      Hi all,
>       >>
>       >>      I've seen some notes floating around in the 'net that the
Microsoft
>       >>      Update-client is buggy, leaking and slows computers down and
the
>       solution
>       >>      to this is to downgrade to the older Windows Update-client.
>       >>
>       >>      Does anybody know how this downgrade is done??
>       >>
>       >>      We have problems with some of the XP-clients over here needed
lots
>       and >>      lots of RAM and CPU-power when updating and I thought. The
>       problem is that
>       >>      the wua-something-process.exe doesn't release the RAM after
>       updating but
>       >> hogs it.
>       >>
>       >>      TIA.
>       >>
>       >>      --
>       >>
>       >>      BW,
>       >>
>       >>      Sorin
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