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I happen to stumble across this information today while visiting ETPlanet.com (acticle posted on main page):
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Latest Windows fix can cause slowdown
Posted by etplanet on Friday, April 18 2003 at 6:53 PM EDT
WINDOWS UPDATE USERS and prudent sys admins might have installed the latest Windows patch without a thought. That might not have been such a good idea. The patch is meant to fix a hole in Windows Messaging but can end up causing a severe performance degradation.
The patch, which we wrote about here, has been causing grief for many users. If you have Windows Update running on automatic and you're experiencing a nasty slowdown on your system, you might want to try removing patch 811493. Users with the performance problems report that removing the patch fixes things.
Read more:
Full report found at TheInquirer.net
Forum thread about problem on Usenet.
MS TechNet Patch 811493 information
Patch 817287 - Database Corruption
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Thanks Everyone,
Gamer
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Latest Windows fix can cause slowdown
Posted by etplanet on Friday, April 18 2003 at 6:53 PM EDT
WINDOWS UPDATE USERS and prudent sys admins might have installed the latest Windows patch without a thought. That might not have been such a good idea. The patch is meant to fix a hole in Windows Messaging but can end up causing a severe performance degradation.
The patch, which we wrote about here, has been causing grief for many users. If you have Windows Update running on automatic and you're experiencing a nasty slowdown on your system, you might want to try removing patch 811493. Users with the performance problems report that removing the patch fixes things.
Read more:
Full report found at TheInquirer.net
Forum thread about problem on Usenet.
MS TechNet Patch 811493 information
Patch 817287 - Database Corruption
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Thanks Everyone,
Gamer