system processes

For decades, Windows users have been bewildered by the appearance of an anonymous window that blocks system shutdowns, often marked only with a vague message or a blank space where a program name should appear. This cryptic occurrence has left even seasoned PC enthusiasts perplexed, especially...

If your fingers ever found themselves idling over the Ctrl + Shift + Esc combination, summoning the digital oracle known as Task Manager, you might have noticed a cryptic little process called AggregatorHost.exe peeking out from the labyrinth of background services. If you’re anything like most...

If you've ever flipped through your Windows Task Manager and spotted an unfamiliar process named openconsole.exe, you might have paused and wondered whether it’s a sign of malware or just another system component. Rest assured: openconsole.exe is an integral part of the modern Windows Terminal...

Hi, Computer recently started giving me the BSOD. I've tried the following; Fresh windows install All drivers have been updated Registry files have been cleaned using CCleaner. Hopefully you can help me decipher the DEBUG file. Link Removed Debug analysis below...

I never had the high Kernel & System CPU usage, but I saw this issue on a friend's computer. The process with PID 4 had a high CPU usage. But that issue solved itself. However, how is disabling HDD timeout (spin down after ** minutes) meant to solve the CPU usage issue? How is it related?

Hello Is it normal for a windows to run this two files at/after boot (always delayed) for time to time and at specific time always 1:00 AM (conhost) or is some kinda virus ?? I'm using win 7 ultimate x64 Thanks for help

I had the privilege of spending some more time with the Windows 10 Kernel folks!! I love learning about the OS with the folks that actually work in it day in and day out. In this video Mehmet Iyigun spent some time discussing why the System process in Windows 10 is taking a bit more memory and...

Help! After the latest updates on Windows Update I can't boot my laptop (an HP Envy Ultrabook 4). Every time I try to start the computer it first goes into repair mode (where none of the solutions have worked so far) and subsequently displays only a blue screen with the message: "STOP...

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I've always been getting blue screens, but they're starting to become more and more frequent. I haven't been able to use my laptop for more than a day without one showing up! The stop codes I've been getting are 0x0000000A and 0x0000001E. I tried running a chkdsk and it told me it would during...

Unlike everybody else here, I have a different problem with COM Surrogate. I noticed something wasn't right when I got random freeze-ups playing audiosurf which is sensitive to CPU usage. I opened task manager and saw about every 15 seconds, there is a spike in the CPU usage. I checked the...

I am getting BSOD at every start up but when I restart my pc again then BSOD disappears.Link Removed - Invalid URL I am experiencing this problem past 2 months.first I thought it was one of my ram module but removing it did not help.after using whocrashed,I found out that this problem is...

(This pertains to windows 7) As title really, is it possible for a threat loaded from something like a web page or something else, to inject malicious dll's into existing legitimate windows processes ? And when i say existing processes i mean the processes and type of stuff that most people...

Okay it's been enough of a pain for me trying to figure out how to open the dump file, got that sorted and now I'm trying to understand it. :confused: I get it's obviously a hardware issue, lol, but any ideas beyond that?? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance~...

I ended processes such as lsm.exe and a prompt came up telling me what Windows has encountered a critical problem and that it will restart in one minute. Even though the process has ended (and remains closed), Windows OPERATES PERFECTLY FINE AND NORMALLY. Why does Windows have to shut down...

Why is it that so many Western Digital products suck at what they do? Every time I tried using a storage device by WD it's been acting up. One time a drive wasn't even being detected by a computer (or other computers I've tried it on) and now this new 1 TB external drive is not wanting to...

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It feels only natural that Microsoft continues updating core Windows modules and programs which they have started under Windows 7. It is safe to say that additional modules and features will be updated. One of the latest that we know of is the Windows Task Manager which will get a complete...

Hey Guys.... for the past couple days i've been experiencing some strange issues with my new laptop. to be clear, it's actually a mid 2010 Macbook Pro 15.4" that i bought to use exclusively as a PC laptop. long story short, i got fed up with low quality built PC laptops and wanted something...

In this video, Joe Stackhouse and Mike Fara discuss Process Explorer, and its unique abilities to diagnose system processes, including malware infections.