Win2K Services.exe?

[superslug]

Does anyone know exactly what this does? When I came home from work this morning is was running at ~90% of the processor capacity and slagging down even my screensaver. A simple reboot took care of it, but I've never seen lockup because of that and am very curious what the hell was going on...

 

[funxus]

Is that like svchost.exe in XP? I know it's connected to many services in XP and runs multiple copies of it. Although they don't take up much of the processor time, they take up quite a lot of memory.

 

[Padma]

superslug: I have had the same issue with my system for quite some time, now. If I could figure out which process Services was running on behalf of, it would help. Occasionally I can figure it out, but usually I just decide it's one of the several "auto-update-checkers" that some of my programs run. It usually clears in under 10 minutes, and then all is back to normal.

Possible culprits on my PC:
Windows auto-update
Mcaffee Security Center
Logitech Keyboard/Mouse driver autoupdateWindowBlinds
RealPlayer
WinAmp
WMP
Webshots
<probably others - I'm at work trying to remember what's in my SYstray >

 

[superslug]

It's probably Windows auto-update then. I just enabled that last week.

 

[col]

Microsoft have just brought out a new security fix for XP etc. Problem is that everyone is trying to download it and the servers lock. Maybe thats the problem.

 

[superslug]

Interesting. Did they also roll this out for Win2K, because that's what I'm running?

 

[Padma]

Yes. I just got the notification today on that one ....