WinXP ekrn.exe memory usage 100% problem solution

After installing WinXP system, many users always find a program ekrn.exe in the process, often occupying 100%, ekrn.exe is something In fact, it is an anti-virus related program in Norton anti-virus software. Many WinXP genuine CDs come with Norton anti-virus software installed, so the above problems will occur. So how to solve this problem? We can start from the following aspects.

When ekrn.exe memory is 100%, the solution steps are:

1. Make sure that you have installed all the SP2 patches of WinXP released by Microsoft (including Svchost.exe). The bug fix for the series question does not refer to SP3.)

2. Suspend all EAV monitoring. After a few seconds, the ekrn.exe usage is automatically reduced to 0%.

3. After a few seconds, Svchost.exe appears to occupy 100% of the CPU.

4. Open Control Panel ==>Administrative Tools==>Services, find "Automatic Updates", set to start manually, then close the service.

5. Clear all files in the C:WINDOWSSoftwareDistribution directory.

6. Restore Automatic Updates to automatically start and restart the service.

7. Start all EAV monitoring.

8, you can restart the computer to try and see if there is no CPU100% phenomenon, of course, you can continue to work without restarting the computer.

Problem Analysis:

1, ekrn.exe takes up 100% of the CPU problem belongs to the normal phenomenon of the anti-virus software in the process of killing the system, because Svchost.exe keeps restarting, this is Windows System BUG, ​​has nothing to do with killing software, so there is no need to change any settings.

2, the cause of svchost accounted for 100% of the system CPU is not the svchost service itself: the above situation is caused by the Windows Update service download /installation failure caused by the update service repeated retry. The automatic update of Windows is also dependent on the background application of the svchost service, which shows that the load of svchost.exe is extremely high. Machines that often have such problems are generally machines that are unstable on the Internet (especially on foreign websites).

This problem is very common. As long as people who have used the WinXP system have encountered it, many people think that it is normal regardless of him. Over time, the computer will slowly change the card. It’s a bit late for you to think about how to solve it. Since this problem can be solved, why not close it early? I believe that after reading the above tutorial, you will deal with it immediately.