I recently turned on Automatic Updates in my laptop and since last saturday, i experienced a crashing svchost process related to it after boot up.  There were times that i couldn't access any MMC plugin application and even my control panel after the crash.

I've seen a number of resolutions in the internet and one of those is to turn it off then do manual microsoft updates.  I hope this one solves it. 

I was surprised though the MS had already pushed VS 2005 SP1 in the list of updates, i need to go through the tips in some of the blogs on how to effectively apply the service pack to avoid any problems.