Windows Update Update (Score 1)

I had two computers that had issues, one physical win 7 with 2gb RAM, one VM with 4gb. Turns out windows update (running in svchost.exe) was using excessive amounts of RAM on windows update runs (And I mean excessive). The whole system became unusable for what felt like 20mins while the Windows Update run going. Lots and lots of paging until Windows update released the memory, and then very sluggish while applications were paged back in.

https://support.microsoft.com/...

Nice one Microsoft releasing this as an "optional" update. The perfect upgrade push. How many Joe Average uses would just be "Wow, my computer is really slow, time for an upgrade" because they aren't aware there is an optional update hiding there under Windows Update to fix it.