ThorConnWndClass

[Cheska99]

In the previous week I've developed a problem with this on both my office
computer running Outlook 2003 and my brand, spanking new computer running
Outlook 2007. I have Spysweeper on the computer in the office but haven't put
it on at home yet. ThorConnWndClass is holding up the shutdown of my computer
and I supsect it's involved in character delay when I'm typing.

 

[Nikki Peterson]

I had looked into this many moons ago, below is what I found:

I found two articles of interest:

http://www.adras.com/WWhat-is-ThorConnWndClass.t1754-4.html
With the following:
From: BillR [MVP] on 26 Feb 2005 19:56
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I can locate two possible causes - Webshots screensaver
and Winfax . Are either of those installed?

And
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6142-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=53370&messageID=636332
With the following:
I've found a solution for me at least. It sounds so simple now but it
took a long time to get to this point. I've set the screensaver to 'None'
and all now seems OK - I'm delighted and hope that this might help
someone else.

The screensaver I was using was nothing fancy - one I've used many
times over the years - just the 'My Pictures SlideShow' screensaver
supplied with XP. Whether it's something to do with one or more of the
images I used (all my own .JPGs) I don't know. All I do know is that the
above problems have disappeared from the system and I'm a happy
bunny once more!!!

Which brings to question, are you using "Webshots screensaver"
or "My Pictures SlideShow"?

Nikki

In the previous week I've developed a problem with this on both my office
computer running Outlook 2003 and my brand, spanking new computer running
Outlook 2007. I have Spysweeper on the computer in the office but haven't
put
it on at home yet. ThorConnWndClass is holding up the shutdown of my
computer
and I supsect it's involved in character delay when I'm typing.

 

[VanguardLH]

In the previous week I've developed a problem with this on both my office
computer running Outlook 2003 and my brand, spanking new computer running
Outlook 2007. I have Spysweeper on the computer in the office but haven't put
it on at home yet. ThorConnWndClass is holding up the shutdown of my computer
and I supsect it's involved in character delay when I'm typing.

Do you have items stuck in the Outbox folder in Outlook? If so, you
will need to delete them. If you cannot delete them using the Outlook
GUI then you have to use utilities to dig into the message store and
delete them from there. One method is to use Outlookspy (not free but
usable until the 1-month trial expires). MDBVU32.EXE from
Microsoft is free but a more difficult to use. See the articles below:

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/delete_rr.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/deletereadreceipt.htm

ThorConnWndClass is a method (entry point) defined in inetcomm.dll.
Maybe your copy under %windir%\system32 is corrupted or been replaced
with malware, or malware, you, or a registry cleaner (which comes back
to you as the authorizing agent for any proposed changes) removed the
registry entry for the reference to this method in this DLL. First see
if reregistering the DLL fixes the problem:

cd %windir%\system32
regsvr32 inetcomm.dll

If that didn't work, check the copies of the file exactly the same
under:

%windir%\system32\inetcomm.dll
%windir%\system32\dllcache\inetcomm.dll

You may need to use a DOS prompt to get to the DLLcache folder since
Explorer will hide it (even if the option to display hidden files is
enabled as it is considered a special folder). Use the 'fc' DOS program
at a DOS prompt to compare the 2 files ("fc /b <file1> <file2>"). If
they are not the same, copy the one from the DLLcache folder, or run
"sfc /scannow". If the copy under the DLLcache folder is also bad, you
need to delete it and rerun "sfc /scannow" but that will require your
install CD or an i386 folder from which to retrieve a good copy of this
file.

Of course, if malware is the cause then you need to start scanning for
malware using multiple anti-malware products. None of the anti-malware
products have great coverage and overlapping them improves coverage.