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re: Windows XP locks up upon logon after Automatic Update Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:29 am Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Suggest restoring your OS to a date/time before the update. If you started an update and it got interupted, you likely are not going to fix it any other way. You might reconsider using automatic update. I would rather see what's going on, even from MS. On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 8:31 am, Andrew W. Huppert wrote: >I recently performed the automatic update on my PC and I don't believe it actually >got out because my firewall did not allow the connection. I was working for about >2 hours and I finally rebooted the machine. After I logged on I noticed that the >task tray was not populating so I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and discovered that everything >was running, but SVCHOST.EXE was using 50% CPU and TCPSVCS.EXE was using the other >50%. > >The computer sits like this for hours, but finally returns to normal... however, >I can not pull and IP address. Any suggestions? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP locks up upon logon after Automatic Update Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:26 pm Posted by Andrew W. Huppert (2 messages posted) I spent 5 hours on the phone with Microsoft on this. For some reason, the WINSOCK2 key got completely corrupted in my registry. After replaing that by using the registry from another PC, we were able to figure out that an additional *2* Networking Services were causing the machine to lock up upong logon to the system. These services were *RIP Listener* & *SSDP Discovery Service* -- once I disabled them, Windows worked just fine! Thanks for the replies, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:29 am, Tom Swanson wrote: >Suggest restoring your OS to a date/time before the update. If you started an update >and it got interupted, you likely are not going to fix it any other way. You might >reconsider using automatic update. I would rather see what's going on, even from >MS. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP locks up upon logon after Automatic Update Friday, December 6, 2002 at 8:39 am Posted by Tom Swanson (5553 messages posted) Glad you got it solved ;+) On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:26 pm, Andrew W. Huppert wrote: >I spent 5 hours on the phone with Microsoft on this. For some reason, the WINSOCK2 >key got completely corrupted in my registry. After replaing that by using the registry >from another PC, we were able to figure out that an additional *2* Networking Services >were causing the machine to lock up upong logon to the system. These services were >*RIP Listener* & *SSDP Discovery Service* -- once I disabled them, Windows worked >just fine! > >Thanks for the replies, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP locks up upon logon after Automatic Update Friday, December 6, 2002 at 10:12 am Posted by abc abc (255 messages posted) *2* Networking Services were causing the machine to lock up upong logon to the system. These services were *RIP Listener* & *SSDP Discovery Service* -- once I disabled them, Windows worked just fine! Hmmm...both of these services deal with traffic routing. The RIP listener is only useful when you have 2 internet connections in your network, and SSDP discovery is a component of Universal Plug'n' Pray (nothing to do with Plug and Play). Not sure what is wrong with your PC, but you'll probably never use these 2 services anyway. Glad that all is working :) thebluegr [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP locks up upon logon after Automatic Update Friday, December 6, 2002 at 12:20 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (7248 messages posted) How did you get a number for them? I once tried to find a human there and came to the conclusion that there were none regards, Adam Bradley On Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 10:26 pm, Andrew W. Huppert wrote: >I spent 5 hours on the phone with Microsoft on this. For some reason, the WINSOCK2 >key got completely corrupted in my registry. After replaing that by using the registry >from another PC, we were able to figure out that an additional *2* Networking Services >were causing the machine to lock up upong logon to the system. These services were >*RIP Listener* & *SSDP Discovery Service* -- once I disabled them, Windows worked >just fine! > >Thanks for the replies, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum