FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS), is a process in
Microsoft Windows operating systems that is responsible for enforcing the
security policy on the system. It verifies users logging on to a Windows
computer or server, handles password changes, and creates access tokens. It
also writes to the Windows Security Log.
Windows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with
releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.
It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is
also the component of the operating system that presents the user interface
on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes
referred to as the Windows Shell, or simply ³Explorer².
GIYF.
-Sinbad
On 04/02/2009 12:34, in article
(E-Mail Removed),
"Terry Pinnell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I've been trying, so far in vain, to discover why some operations on
> my PC are so slow, when compared to others doing identical things on a
> similar system. This is a single user PC with a normal broadband
> connection via cable to my router. The only other 'network' aspect is
> a cable to another PC which I used months ago to transfer data across,
> but that is switched off.
>
> As part of this detective work I ran ProcMon and was amazed at so many
> things apparently going on when I'm doing nothing of significance.
> Here's a tiny selection below. I apologise for the 'clutter', but
> thought I needed a good handful of entries to offer any clues. These
> are all mostly meaningless to me. But it just looks like there's far
> too much going on in about 50 ms. Any insights would be much
> appreciated please. Or even a comparison from someone else with
> ProcMon installed.
>
> 7605 12:20:49.9348132 lsass.exe 784 RegOpenKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy SUCCESS Desired Access: Read/Write
>
> 7606 12:20:49.9348218 lsass.exe 784 RegOpenKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
>
> 7607 12:20:49.9348295 lsass.exe 784 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc\(Default) BUFFER OVERFLOW Length: 12
>
> 7608 12:20:49.9348360 lsass.exe 784 RegCloseKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc SUCCESS
>
> 7609 12:20:49.9348405 lsass.exe 784 RegOpenKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
>
> 7610 12:20:49.9348483 lsass.exe 784 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc\(Default) SUCCESS Type: REG_NONE,
> Length: 180, Data: 01 00 04 80 98 00 00 00 A8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> 7611 12:20:49.9348542 lsass.exe 784 RegCloseKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy\SecDesc SUCCESS
>
> 7612 12:20:49.9350173 lsass.exe 784 RegCloseKey
> HKLM\SECURITY\Policy SUCCESS
>
> 7710 12:20:49.9797173 MacExp.exe 1280 RegQueryValue
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
> Settings\EnableAutodial SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 0
>
> 7739 12:20:49.9868163 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\Bind BUFFER
> OVERFLOW Length: 144
>
> 7740 12:20:49.9868240 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\Bind BUFFER
> OVERFLOW Length: 144
>
> 7741 12:20:49.9868288 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\Bind SUCCESS
> Type: REG_MULTI_SZ, Length: 320, Data: \Device\{2FDCCC7B-
> F44D-40B8-9EE6-595FF29908E2},
> \Device\{719F1105-675E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5},
> \Device\{0AA3BF6C-8273-4C21-8BBC-51865448F406}, \Device\NdisWanIp
>
> 7746 12:20:49.9869895 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegOpenKey
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{719F1105-6
> 75E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5}
> SUCCESS Desired Access: Read
>
> 7747 12:20:49.9870163 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{719F1105-6
> 75E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5}\EnableDHCP
> SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1
>
> 7748 12:20:49.9870241 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{719F1105-6
> 75E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5}\LeaseObtainedTime
> SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1233749607
>
> 7749 12:20:49.9870330 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{719F1105-6
> 75E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5}\LeaseTerminatesTime
> SUCCESS Type: REG_DWORD, Length: 4, Data: 1234008807
>
> 7750 12:20:49.9870398 Explorer.EXE 1672 RegQueryValue
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{719F1105-6
> 75E-4DA7-B75D-B1ABC815F5D5}\DhcpServer
> SUCCESS Type: REG_SZ, Length: 24, Data: 192.168.1.1