On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:38:24 +0200, Jakob Bohm <jb@danware.dk Yes, I know that and the procedure above assumes that. Two other sources of spikes which I have seen over the years: 1. If the DataStore has become corrupted by a random event, the code that manages it can spend a lot of CPU cycles spinning its wheels for little or no gain. Clearing out the database and starting over gets you a clean uncorrupted database in a few minutes. 2. The delta-download mechanism used by Windows Updat...

On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:27:02 -0700, rutrow <rutrow@discussions.microsoft.com When I try to play something from my playlist I get this error msg. " WMP encounterec a problem while playing the file, for additional assistance click web help." I also get another error msg when I try to listen to a download from an e-mail. It is error code C00D11CD Unknown error. WMP has encountered an unknown error. THis can occur when another program or operation system component encounters a proble...

On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:20:49 +0200, Jakob Bohm <jb@danware.dk [You may ignore PA Bear, he screams malware no matter what the question is] Windows Updates are downloaded by the BITS service which runs in one of the systems svchost.exe instances. Windows Update itself runs in another instance of svchost.exe. So if anything in Windows Update itself is using too much CPU to be useable, Task Manager will show that CPU waste as happening in svchost.exe . When Windows Update gets stupid abou...

On Apr 25, 10:34 am, Ǝиçεl <l...@discussions.microsoft.com Michelle, I'd like to provide a somewhat more helpful reply ... I had the same problem. The Realtek site does have a suitable driver. Go to www.realtek.com, select downloads, then search for 'rtl8168b'. Click on the search result that ends in '(software'), then select the driver for your system. I used the Realtek Vista 64/Vista autoinstallation program. After I downloaded and extracted the set of files and ran setup.exe, I was gi...