strange application running

Skiduck

Recently my pc has been bugged with a strange application - every 15 mins an application will start up - lasts for half a second if that - it may even be IE. All I see is some kind of window quickly opening and closing on the taskbar. I've tried spyware removers etc and even looking in task manager to see if I can see it when it does it, but to no avail.
It will bring other apps, like games out of their fullscreen and when watching a movie, will force the taskbar into play for half a second - it's getting annoying.

Anyone any ideas what it is? sorry for the bad explanation, it's hard to describe.

Bad-Boy-Button

Go to start, Run, type in msconfig, then go to services tab, Check the 'Hide all Microsoft services' If you compare all services with http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/ctfmon/
This shows what is needed and what is taking up system memory. You can do the same under the 'Startup' tab to help too.

HTH, BBB

Skiduck

Bad-Boy-Button wrote:

Go to start, Run, type in msconfig, then go to services tab, Check the 'Hide all Microsoft services' If you compare all services with http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/ctfmon/
This shows what is needed and what is taking up system memory. You can do the same under the 'Startup' tab to help too.

HTH, BBB

Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight, see if I can see what's up.

albertross_2

if you know when it's going to happen, try these:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html