Windows XP slowdown caused by update!

[felixml]

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Latest Windows fix can cause slowdown

Too many patches on the wheel

By Arron Rouse: Friday 18 April 2003, 18:34


WINDOWS UPDATE USERS and prudent sys admins might have installed the latest Windows patch without a thought. That might not have been such a good idea. The patch is meant to fix a hole in Windows Messaging but can end up causing a severe performance degradation.
The patch, which we wrote about here, has been causing grief for many users. If you have Windows Update running on automatic and you're experiencing a nasty slowdown on your system, you might want to try removing patch 811493. Users with the performance problems report that removing the patch fixes things.

The patch fixes a relatively minor security problem where an attacker would have to have physical access to the machine.

A discussion about the problem, if it is one, has started on Usenet, here
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...gbl%26rnum%3D1

[mikeh420]

I was wondering why my system slowed down, didn't think it could be a caused by a patch . I just uninstalled 811493, and there is a noticeable difference.

Thanx Felix.

[DoG]

Same here, will be dumping that little package

[mikeh420]

Well, my PC never recovered from that crap/patch Q811493. It was rebooting only while playing videos, but it just rebooted while i was in my browser. NO MORE WINDOWS UPDATE FOR ME. Bunch of garbage. I'll wait until the SP's are a few months old before applying them, just like with NT4! Three re-boots in the last hour! Maybe I'll just load Linux. Windows is so idiot-friendly with the GUI front end, that it don't work worth a damn anymore.

[Moe]

Installed 5 updates on a fresh P4 2.2 & found severe performance slowdown. Applied same updates to another pc, same problem & then I knew it was one of the updates causing the problem. Rolled both back to previous image & problem gone.

Moe

[robinwilson16]

You would think they would test them more before releasing them, especially when it's causing a noticible slowdown on so many computers