re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 12:25 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by KAWill70 (167 messages posted) I'm starting to think that IE8 has some problem with Windows Update as supported by your much better results with IE6. Last night quite late I started Windows update using IE8 and it took at least 20 minutes to identify the required updates.  I believe the latest Tuesday updates were available and it's possible that many users were updating. Interestingly, the activity light on my disk was on pretty much continuously for the 20 minutes.  In addition, my Task Manager showed Internet Explorer consuming 33% of CPU bandwidth, and SVCHost.exe was using substantial memory somewhere around 140 MB as I recall. You really wonder what is going on with all that activity. Written in response to: re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (Tom M: Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 8:39 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (KAWill70: Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 3:15 pm) re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (Tom: Tue, Jul 20, 2010, 4:19 pm) re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (KAWill70: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 12:34 pm) re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (Tom M: Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 8:39 am) re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (KAWill70: Thu, Jul 29, 2010, 11:37 am) re: Windows Update - Time Required to Check for New Updates (KAWill70: Tue, Aug 3, 2010, 12:25 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum