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Hotfix for Windows XP (KB954550-v5) was not the cause of CPU spiking

Posted on Wednesday, 3 December 2008No Comment

OK, here’s an update. Even though we still don’t know what KB954550-v5 does, it does not seem to be the cause of our CPU spiking. The way I resolved our problem was to uninstall ALL the .Net frameworks that can be uninstalled (I uninstalled 3.5, then 3.0, then 2.0 sp1, then 1.1 compact and then 1.0 compact in that order). .Net 1.1 and 1.0 cannot be uninstalled (easily) according to information out there on the web, so I left them. Next, I installed .Net 3.5 from scratch, and that is it! We use .Net 2.0 and the .Net 3.5 installer installs previous versions also. Our CPU problem went away.

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