Hanging SVCHost
If you notice that at system start your machine  is sluggish and SVCHOST.exe is the reason, you might want to check out the following;

Firstly download the files from the following links for your Windows Version, and install them.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927891

http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en

Then start a command prompt and copy/paste this into it:

net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 /u wuaueng.dll /s
del /f /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.*
del /f /s /q %windir%\Windowsupdate.log
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\atl.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\jscript.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\msxml3.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\softpub.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuapi.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng1.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wucltui.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wups.dll
regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuweb.dll
net start bits
net start wuauserv
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow

That should fix the problem. Be sure to run a full scan at http://update.microsoft.com to ensure that all patches are installed, as there is a patch to fix this as well… But that sometimes does not remedy the issue – so hence the above fix. I can’t take any credit for it – as I found it somewhere but lost the original source :shock: Kudos to the person(s) in question!

New Internet Line
I just got a new internet line at home in Almere. I’m back on cable – eventhough it still needs some work to get it all to work (beter) correctly, it’s working for the time being. I hope to fully enjoy the 20Mbit it should give me ;) Downloads up-ahead!

Personal stuff
Personally I am doing OK, tired… but OK. I have done a lot at work and I think I can be pleased with what we have accomplished over the last few weeks… I hope that we can carry it on, so that we can make a few very welcome changes soon.

Asides that, I managed to get my hands on a copy of a Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts which I hope to start reading soon. For the time being I am enjoying the book called Street Lawyer which I highly recommend.

Well I better get back to work… take care all!