build 5384 networking s etc

Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.

"zulues1234" wrote in message

Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.

Two things I noticed right away that could be related to or in some way causing the issue:
1. Your partition size should be at least 15GB. Microsoft recommends 20GB with at least 15BG free. That doesn't include space required for additional software installations, such as your anti-virus suite. Anything you add, software-wise, you have to increase the size of the partition by whatever the specification of the software may be. This allows for pagefile expansion, among other things, which in your case is very important because of...
2. With 512MB RAM less the 64MB it loses to your integrated graphics card, you have less RAM than the recommended minimum for Vista Home Basic. (Remember, the recommended minimum for XP was 64MB, and nobody even close to sane would attempt that today). MSFT recommends a minimum of 1GB RAM for the premium versions of Vista. Beta 2 #5384 is "Ultimate" so it qualifies as a premium version.
You probably are simply running out of hard disk space for indexing, log files, pagefile, hibfile, restore points, etc. on your partition, and with low RAM and not much room for a pagefile, svchost is likely not able to have enough resources to run properly.
But this is only a guess and I could be wrong.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx

That would be my first guess as well. Your Vista partition is just too small. it's not giving Vista enough elbow room to work properly. I wouldn't install it on anything less than a 20gig drive/partition.
Heck. One of my system I loaded Vista onto has a WD 36gig Raptor as teh boot drive, and once you have Vista loaded along with Microsoft Office and a few others, I was down to only about 8gig free.
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote in message

"zulues1234" wrote in message Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.
Two things I noticed right away that could be related to or in some way causing the issue:
1. Your partition size should be at least 15GB. Microsoft recommends 20GB with at least 15BG free. That doesn't include space required for additional software installations, such as your anti-virus suite. Anything you add, software-wise, you have to increase the size of the partition by whatever the specification of the software may be. This allows for pagefile expansion, among other things, which in your case is very important because of...
2. With 512MB RAM less the 64MB it loses to your integrated graphics card, you have less RAM than the recommended minimum for Vista Home Basic. (Remember, the recommended minimum for XP was 64MB, and nobody even close to sane would attempt that today). MSFT recommends a minimum of 1GB RAM for the premium versions of Vista. Beta 2 #5384 is "Ultimate" so it qualifies as a premium version.
You probably are simply running out of hard disk space for indexing, log files, pagefile, hibfile, restore points, etc. on your partition, and with low RAM and not much room for a pagefile, svchost is likely not able to have enough resources to run properly.
But this is only a guess and I could be wrong.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx

all right everyone I was able to increase the partition size to 25GB. still the same memory. so i booted up the partition with Vista in safe mode with networking support. guess what svchost.exe was still eating up 100% of my CPU usage/resources. so then somehow was able to start up Systernal's Process Explorer and right-clicked on the reources eating svchost.exe. I went to the thread pane and guess what RPCRT4.dll was the culprit with a pure 100 percent CPU usage. So i suspended the module and my CPU usage went down to 0 percent....what is causing it to go that high? I wonder why......
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

"zulues1234" wrote in message Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.
Two things I noticed right away that could be related to or in some way causing the issue:
1. Your partition size should be at least 15GB. Microsoft recommends 20GB with at least 15BG free. That doesn't include space required for additional software installations, such as your anti-virus suite. Anything you add, software-wise, you have to increase the size of the partition by whatever the specification of the software may be. This allows for pagefile expansion, among other things, which in your case is very important because of...
2. With 512MB RAM less the 64MB it loses to your integrated graphics card, you have less RAM than the recommended minimum for Vista Home Basic. (Remember, the recommended minimum for XP was 64MB, and nobody even close to sane would attempt that today). MSFT recommends a minimum of 1GB RAM for the premium versions of Vista. Beta 2 #5384 is "Ultimate" so it qualifies as a premium version.
You probably are simply running out of hard disk space for indexing, log files, pagefile, hibfile, restore points, etc. on your partition, and with low RAM and not much room for a pagefile, svchost is likely not able to have enough resources to run properly.
But this is only a guess and I could be wrong.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/systemrequirements.mspx

"zulues1234" wrote in message

all right everyone I was able to increase the partition size to 25GB. still the same memory. so i booted up the partition with Vista in safe mode with networking support. guess what svchost.exe was still eating up 100% of my CPU usage/resources. so then somehow was able to start up Systernal's Process Explorer and right-clicked on the reources eating svchost.exe. I went to the thread pane and guess what RPCRT4.dll was the culprit with a pure 100 percent CPU usage. So i suspended the module and my CPU usage went down to 0 percent....what is causing it to go that high? I wonder why......

RPCRT4.dll refers to a library accessed for networking and internet communication, according to a quick Google search. I guess start with network settings and go from there. Also, one of the updates for this version was to correct an issue with "non-scaling" routers, which may or may not be an avenue to look into.

i cant access the network settings in safe mode and if i try to do it in normal mode its sooo slow. but i'll try anyway
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

"zulues1234" wrote in message all right everyone I was able to increase the partition size to 25GB. still the same memory. so i booted up the partition with Vista in safe mode with networking support. guess what svchost.exe was still eating up 100% of my CPU usage/resources. so then somehow was able to start up Systernal's Process Explorer and right-clicked on the reources eating svchost.exe. I went to the thread pane and guess what RPCRT4.dll was the culprit with a pure 100 percent CPU usage. So i suspended the module and my CPU usage went down to 0 percent....what is causing it to go that high? I wonder why......

RPCRT4.dll refers to a library accessed for networking and internet communication, according to a quick Google search. I guess start with network settings and go from there. Also, one of the updates for this version was to correct an issue with "non-scaling" routers, which may or may not be an avenue to look into.

I was able to access the Internet Connections panel and it said that I was connected and enabled to go online but the problem is that the service for the network has been turned off and still could not go online, already tried google.com. I tried to turn it back on but rpcrt4.dll shot up the Cpu usage after I suspended it via process explorer. I then tried to unistall the updates but was unable to do so because it stopped halfway always. So I am still at square one but isolated the problem. Also, rpcrt4.dll still ate my resources in safe mode with networking support. Also, can you please elaborate on the term "non-scaling" routers. If you need any more information, I'll be happy to provide it.
"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

"zulues1234" wrote in message all right everyone I was able to increase the partition size to 25GB. still the same memory. so i booted up the partition with Vista in safe mode with networking support. guess what svchost.exe was still eating up 100% of my CPU usage/resources. so then somehow was able to start up Systernal's Process Explorer and right-clicked on the reources eating svchost.exe. I went to the thread pane and guess what RPCRT4.dll was the culprit with a pure 100 percent CPU usage. So i suspended the module and my CPU usage went down to 0 percent....what is causing it to go that high? I wonder why......

RPCRT4.dll refers to a library accessed for networking and internet communication, according to a quick Google search. I guess start with network settings and go from there. Also, one of the updates for this version was to correct an issue with "non-scaling" routers, which may or may not be an avenue to look into.

Zulues - let's get back on track - you stated "...So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses....".
Recap: Vista worked fine - you installed updates and the AV program - now Vista problems?? What's the deduction?
If computer boots and runs OK in Safe Mode but not in normal made - primary cause is/are driver(s) - most likely via the updates or AV.
"zulues1234" wrote in message

Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.

Actually, first I installed the AV. No problems. Then I updated it. Thats when everything started to get weird. I'm guessing the updates are the problem because I never encountered this before them.
"AJR" wrote:

Zulues - let's get back on track - you stated "...So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses....".
Recap: Vista worked fine - you installed updates and the AV program - now Vista problems?? What's the deduction?
If computer boots and runs OK in Safe Mode but not in normal made - primary cause is/are driver(s) - most likely via the updates or AV.
"zulues1234" wrote in message Hello to everyone: I don't know where to start first but Ishould tell about what my system specifications are. It's a 1.8Ghz Celeron Processor with 512MB Ram with 64MB integrated graphics and an 80GB HDD. I installed Vista Build 5384 successfully on a 10GB partition. So I booted up in Vista and everything was fine, nothing wrong, including Internet. So I went to the Windows Updates area and installed the updates automatically after I activated it. I then installed Comodo Anti-Virus ran a scan and everything was fine, no viruses. So the computer restarted and I then logged on. Vista then started to become very slow and I mean very slow. I then started up task manager and svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU resources/usage... That was very weird. Next, the networking service was not able to startup so I now did not have Internet, yay... so I restarted somehow into safe mode. everything was fine. So i then started up again into normal mode and again svchost.exe was eating all of my CPU usage/resources. This did not happen after I updated via Windows Update. Imean I could not do anything. It took about 5 minutes to launch the Control Panel, before it only took less than 30 seconds. What I am asking is if the newest updates affected svchost.exe and my ability to connect to the Internet. And if that is the case, is there a solution to the problem.

I was able to get my Internet working again. First, my Windows XP Partition crashed yesterday. So I did a recovery with the HP CD's. Second, that Windows XP Partition froze during startup. So I booted in Windows Vista. I was able to uninstall Comodo AV. Then uninstalled the following updates: KB 920698 and KB 919946. One was for IPSec and the other for routers I think. Third, I suspended RPCRT4.dll but did not eat up 100 percent usage. Fourth, then my Internet works now so im guessing it was the av and the 2 updates.