How did this account get here??

angelcake

I am trying to find my computers memory (usage!) I came across an account in users, that I have never seen before called ASP.NET Machine A.... how did this get there??

I have deleted it but am worried now! I am sorry to be a pain this morning! but I am not too hot on computer programmes etc!!

Yesterday I tried writing a letter in word and the cursor keys, home, end etc were all working backwards!

Is my comp bust - do I need to reformat?

angelcake

The aspnet_wp or ASP.NET Machine Account is created when the Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 is installed onto a Windows XP computer. The user is created to run the asp.net worker process used in Microsoft's Internet Information Services, which allows ASP.net to run on your local web server (This is pretty much its only use, it is not used to run normal .net managed executables). There is not a need to worry about this user's presence; it was not created in malicious way.

ASP.net is a programming framework built on the common language runtime (Microsoft .net framework) which can be used on a server to build powerful Web applications. For more information on ASP.net see here

Oh Poo I should have just looked in the first place!