Anyone heard of rpcxwaus.exe?

[TPNewbie]

Each time after turning on my X31 (running Windows 2000) last night and this morning, I saw that CPU usage was at 100% (in Task Manager). I noticed a process I did not recognize named rpcxwaus.exe and when I stopped it, my CPU usage was down to 0-2%. I could not find anything for rpcxwaus.exe or rpcxwaus at Google, Microsoft, Lycos, or Webcrawler. Has anyone heard of it? Any ideas as to how I can investigate further? Thanks very much.

-Erik

[ian]

I don't know if this is much use to you, but in computing, RPC generally means a Remote Procedure Call implying a call to another program.

EDIT: It would appear that WAUS can mean Windows Automated Update Service if you follow the link below...

http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/windows/updates/

Further than this I fear I'm not much use.

[TPNewbie]

Thanks for your fast reply. That should give me a good place to start.

-Erik

[selvan777]

Speaking of WAUS, how do you cange the time it checks for updates?