Windows Update fucked me sideways?

[Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman]

My notebook is an old Toshiba Satellite A60 with P4 2.8Ghz processor and 512Mb of RAM, runnning XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed except Windows Genuine Advantage. Yesterday, I opened two Windows Explorers, Outlook Express, and WinAmp 5.13, which I've been using for almost a year.

When I tried to scroll up and down while reading an email in Outlook Express, the WinAmp song I was playing suddenly became jerky, and only became smooth again when I selected WinAmp on the TaskBar. When I switched back to Outlook Express, the jerkiness was back. The same thing also happened when I scrolled up and down on Windows Explorer. First I thought it was a DirectSound-related problem, but switching to WaveOutput in WinAmp did not help a shit.

Then I thought it was RAM problem or something, but when I opened Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL), turned out that the PageFile usage was stable --it was the CPU usage that fluctuated wildly whenever I switched from one application to another. Sometimes, the CPU usage reached 100%, and that was where the played WinAmp song went jerky.

Well such thing never happened before, ever. Well of course CPU usage always fluctuated everytime I switched between applications, but never that severe before. I'm not sure, but it seems to me that now each application (including Windows Explorer and Outlook Express) eats up way more CPU than before.

The funny thing is that such thing has been happenning only since about several days ago. I suspect this is something related to Windows update, because IIRC such shit started to happen since I installed a Windows update several nights ago.

And this is the most recent Winblows update I installed:

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10/01/2007  20:19            10.878 KB929969.log
19/02/2007  19:02            10.802 KB928843.log
21/02/2007  21:19            18.245 KB928090.log
21/02/2007  21:19            14.423 KB918118.log
21/02/2007  21:19            13.802 KB926436.log
21/02/2007  21:20            24.325 KB931836.log
21/02/2007  21:20            12.093 KB924667.log
21/02/2007  21:20            15.447 KB928255.log
21/02/2007  21:20            15.671 KB927802.log
21/02/2007  21:20            18.646 KB927779.log
22/03/2007  23:19            15.505 KB929338.log
04/04/2007  14:21            12.755 KB925902.log

While I ain't dead sure about it, it seems to me that the culprit is KB KB929338, because it seems that the whole shit started since I installed the motherfucker. Besides, I have played WinAmp while working with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and OpenOffice Draw, without experiencing song jerkiness despite my flimsy 512Mb of RAM.

So what is KBKB929338 and why does it seems to slow everything down, and how to remove it? :sad: :thewall: :hangem:

Thanks!
-Kresh