system processes

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'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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

Ok. Currently I'm running an Everex Stepnote N Series laptop model NM 3500 W, 32 bit windows 7 Old piece of crap. I've upgraded to windows 7 recently and had nothing but trouble with this thing. The biggest problem is transferring files. I have a large file, approx 50 gigs to move. I plugin the...

W7 Ultimate build 7600 The task manager doesn't display any values of processes. If I want to chech which process how much of RAM uses I can't do it because there are no values. See the screenshot below in order to understand what I mean. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I tried even...

Virus? Windows Update? Who knows... but here is the quick rundown of what happened. We cant open any programs. We click an icon... it thinks about it then nothing. Click on an exe... it thinks about it then nothing. Click on anything that would normally launch a program and nothing happens...

So one day I decided to open up paint to paste a screenshot I took and got an error about ODBC32.dll not working. I just ignored it. Then today I realize that important things like msconfig, and Computer Management also use this dll file, so stupidly I tried replacing it with a copy from another...

I just got a new i7 with windows 7 64 bit on it yesterday. Everything was slow, and I figured out why, but don't really understand why, or what I can do to keep it from happening in the future. Yesterday I attached it to an external NTFS drive that had a bunch of bad sectors, copied over...

I'm using Windows 7. I installed xampp. The default port of Apache is 80. If I start Apache with this default port, I can't start it. After searching google, i found process NT Kernel & System (with PID of 4 ) listening on port 80. Some friends disable manually it by end process in Task Manager...

hi everybody , before i continue here are my specs: toshiba satellite a135-s4467 core2duo t5200 with integrated graphics 160 gb hard drive 2gb of memory i installed windows 7 and it just lags terribly. there are times when it doesnt respond. the i really dont know what to do at this point. my...

I know that it is common to have multiple amounts of these processes running. But I have 12 ! 12, really ? Is this common with windows 7 ? Because I have never seen that on XP. Btw I am running the RC (Build 7100) Thank you here is the ScreenShot

It seems any game that runs in 256 colors (Diablo II, Starcraft, Worms: Armageddon, Eternal Fighter Zero, etc) have difficulty rendering their palette properly, resulting in garbled graphics or even unplayable situations. The only workaround I can find so far is to actually kill explorer.exe and...

I have just installed Vista. I have a standard and an admin account, For some reason or the other when i login with the standard user account i see the admin user logged in and all the processes running by him and it doesnt show the standard user logged. when i log in with the admin account I...

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