What does Watson do - and will it last??

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pawz

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I have had a problem with the machine I am working on (XP) in that, after a reformat and fresh install of the OS, the processor would be at 100% and so nothing else would work. This happened whether or not I was connected to the net.
The solution seemed to be to get the computer fully updated to SP2, but even after all the updates were installed I was still seeing the processor at 100% although it was now being shared so I could open and close windows and applications, albeit not at maximum promptness.

I couldn't think what was happening and the only way to stop it seemed to be to turn off automatic update, which I do not want to do.

However, looking on the right-click menu for that generic host file (in Process Explorer), I found 'debug' and clicked that, and Dr Watson leapt into action and instantly the machine was behaving normally with no further huge demands for processor time.
That is good, but what has it actually done I wonder, and, more importantly, will it be a lasting solution?

This little machine is due to go out to someone who has no great experience of computers, so I do not want it to start causing him problems the moment I am out the door...

all wisdom appreciated :)
 
Well, auto update does use a lot of resources at first when you have a newly built pc? WHy don't you let it finish its business? probably will need about 5 reboots though.

I have no idea what watson is, what it does, or if it will last. But at least you get a bump and the small advice of trying to let auto update finish its biz.
 
you think it hadn't finished then.. hmm. Perhaps I should have been more patient with it, but after about 60-70 updates - not counting SP2 which I had to download manually - I figured it must have finished. I will look again tomorrow and see if there are anymore :)
 
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