> My PC is not overclocked and seems to run fine ... > The question is : Why is USER.EXE running and who did launch it ? > > I did try to duplicate the situation as it was supposed to be when the > problem happen, and I did't see any USER.EXE task ...
USER.EXE is part of the operating system and is either being called by the operating system or by an application that needs to do something with the screen, keyboard, or mouse. This probably happens hundreds of thousands of times during a typical day of using Windows. All applications that display anything on the screen or accept keyboard or mouse input are calling into USER.EXE. You don't see it listed as a task because it is really a DLL (never mind the EXE in the file name, EXEs can also be DLLs) and so it is running in the process space of some other system process or application. If you only ever see the problem on one PC, then it is possible that some hardware problem on the PC is causing the error. Otherwise, it is probably a bug deep down in one of the applications that is running when you see the error. -- Larry ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
