Showing posts with label winxp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label winxp. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Abnormally Win XP; high CPU usage from svchost.exe [SOLVED in real!]

Description of the problem

In summer of 2013, Microsoft published an update for windows XP where after the apply of the update, the computer became too slow because, the svchost.exe seemed to consume amount of cpu resources.

Well... officially there wasn't any patch for this bug and lot of computers arround the world become... slow.

The svchost.exe is not something simple, belongs to the core of the system and is used from other services to complete several operations of the system and of other installed applications. So, it is not solution to drop the scvhost.exe. The svchost.exe also is used for viruses also to perform their request actions, so the same svchost.exe is not responsible if the computer is infected or hacked.

So this solution can work on healthy machines.

Solution

Disable the Windows Updates! Microsoft doesn't support the windows xp version so you will not lose any security.
You have to disable the Windows Update from two points
1. Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Automatic updates -> Disable them!
2. Right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Services and applications -> Services ->
Find in the list the service names "Automatic Updates". Right click on it -> properties -> start up type: disabled.

Monday, 27 August 2012

setup for win xp vpn server and a win7 vpn client


situation

I want to use me computer as a personal FTP server.
problem

setup for win xp vpn server and a win7 vpn client
difficulty level

9/10 :>
compatibility

Windows xp for VPN server, Win7 or any other windows version. Vpn client could be from any other system.
solution

win xp, create a vpn server on win xp
Control panel -> network connections -> create new connection ->
Setup an advanced connection ->
Accept incoming connections ->
Connection devices: do not check anything, press next ->
Allow private connections (this opens the firewall for internet connections) ->
User permissions: select the user where will have vpn or create new

Network software: TCP ip, in these parameters you should define the pool address that will take the connected vpn client. The first address of the pool will be used from the winxp server as vpn’s nic address and all the others will be given randomly to the connected vpn clients. You cannot easy the DHCP of server’s side.
                                                                                  Setup is completed
server’s side router, port forwarding
From your router, you should forward the follow ports directly to win xp vpn server
TCP & UTP 1720-1730 (range)
TCP & UTP 120-150
TCP & UTP 500

win7, vpn client connection to win xp vpn server
Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center ->
Setup a new connection to network ->
Connect to a workplace ->
Create new connection (do not choose any existed connection) ->
Use my Internet connection (VPN) ->
- Internet addess: give the ip or name of the win xp server [
[i] in case you do not have static ip use the NOIP free service ( http://www.no-ip.com/personal/ )
- Destination name: give a description of this connection
- Do not use Smart card

Voila! Enjoy your new VPN service… totally free.
attention

- The two networks that are joined should have different address, for example: the one could be 192.168.0.xxx and the other cound me 192.168.124.xxx .
- At the end of configuration you should make restart the Win xp vpn server, the Win7 vpn client and the Router, otherwize the vpn might not work with any kind of errors.

Friday, 25 February 2011

winxp, win2003 server, Problem loading the Group Policy security settings

The error message:
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Security Templates
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The Group Policy security settings that apply to this machine could not be determined.
The error returned when trying to retreive these settings from the local security policy database (%windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb) was: The parameter is incorrect.
All local security settings will be displayed, but no indication will be given as to whether or not a given security setting is defined by Group Policy.
Any local security setting modified through this User Interface may subsequently be overriden by domain-level policies.
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OK  
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lets start