e secret krn.exe takes up 100% of the CPU problem

  

Many users of Norton AntiVirus will have this problem. ekrn.exe is ESET Smart Security or ESET NOD32 Antivirus anti-virus related program.

ekrn.exe takes up 100% of the CPU solution

According to the information provided by Microsoft, the ekrn.exe that appears on my computer after installing the 658 version takes up 100% of the CPU solution.

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When ekrn.exe takes up 100% of the CPU, the solution steps are:

1. Make sure that you have installed all the SP2 patches released by Microsoft (including the bug fixes for Svchost.exe series). Does not mean SP3 Ha)

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:\\WINDOWS\\SoftwareDistribution 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, (reproduced) caused 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. Many people think that it is normal regardless of him, but this problem can be solved after all.

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