agrsmmsg ?

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According to Msconfig in my 98SE system this has been starting when I
boot up. Now, I can kill it BUT what concerns me is that none of my
freeware "programs running at startup" programs show where this is
started from. So I can disable it properly.

I know it is an Agere systems soft modem monitor (whatever that is)
but I don't know what program installed it or what it is needed for. I
suspected spyware but a web search suggested that it may be okay.

Has anyone else here come across this and/or know where it is called
from and how to properly disable it etc. please ?

Regards, John.
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John said:
According to Msconfig in my 98SE system this has been starting when I
boot up. Now, I can kill it BUT what concerns me is that none of my
freeware "programs running at startup" programs show where this is
started from. So I can disable it properly.

I know it is an Agere systems soft modem monitor (whatever that is)
but I don't know what program installed it or what it is needed for. I
suspected spyware but a web search suggested that it may be okay.

Has anyone else here come across this and/or know where it is called
from and how to properly disable it etc. please ?

Regards, John.
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This is what winpatrol.com has to say about it.

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Thanks, but those are the sorts of pages I found myself. They don't
tell me what process is activating that executable and where/how to
disable it properly. :-(
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John,

I guess I am a bit confused. Do you have that modem or not? If so,
there is nothing to remove, per the web pages. If you do not have that
modem, the proggie may have been installed with some bundled software.
Any proggie that will tell you what is in start-up (in the registry,
that is) will allow you to remove it.

EasyCleaner, Crapcleaner. MSconfig should allow you to edit it.

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I guess I am a bit confused. Do you have that modem or not?
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As far as I know I have nothing at all from Agere systems. Software or
hardware.
If so,
there is nothing to remove, per the web pages. If you do not have that
modem, the proggie may have been installed with some bundled software.
Yep.

Any proggie that will tell you what is in start-up (in the registry,
that is) will allow you to remove it.
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EasyCleaner, Crapcleaner.
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I tried a number of freeware startup program listers but none showed
where it was called from. Neither did a registry search. I will take a
look at those two however. Thanks.
MSconfig should allow you to edit it.
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No, MSconfig on my 98SE system only allows me to close it. It doesn't
show where it is called from.

Regards, John.
 
As far as I know I have nothing at all from Agere systems. Software or
hardware.
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Agere is parent company of the old Lucent. If you have a Winmodem with a
Lucent/Agere chipset proceed with caution.

hth

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Any proggie that will tell you what is in start-up (in the registry,
that is) will allow you to remove it.
Click to expand...
EasyCleaner, Crapcleaner. MSconfig should allow you to edit it.
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MSconfig did not help. Tried Crapcleaner, and EasyCleaner, and
couldn't work out how to find that specific startup item.

The EasyCleaner I tried was 1.7. When I tried installing 2.0 I got
"Incompatible version of the RPC stub". Guess it didn't like my 98SE
system.

Talking of EasyCleaner, I tried the "duplicates" tab and got
"Estimated time to completion 7087 hours.."

Regards, John.


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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:44:58 +1100

[Lucent modem executable]
Thanks, but those are the sorts of pages I found myself. They don't
tell me what process is activating that executable and where/how to
disable it properly. :-(
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I've a Lucent softmodem, and by default it'd originally loaded a process
called LTSMMSG.EXE at each startup. It annoyed me, this rude auto-process,
with its five zillion accesses every second -- especially when observing
that they were all for no solid justification.

Killing this process caused not the least detectable downside at all
with my modem. You could experiment doing a task-kill on the process,
then using internet and whatnot, to observe whether it's the same case
for you, or not, with AGRSMMG.EXE.

As to where LTSMMSG.EXE gets called up from, and what I suspect would
be the same case for AGRSMMG.EXE. It's an internal call -- made by the
modem's VXD. (The parent calling VXD, with device driver status, has its
startup call natively during boot)

My approach during earlier years was to keep a batch/pif in my startup
group, one written to invoke a commandline "kill" utility that automatically
terminated the annoying process in question. (Lots to choose from, but I used
PV.EXE, http://www.teamcti.com/pview/pv_5_2_1.zip , with this batch command:
"PV -K -F LTSMMSG.exe" )

This worked fine for several years. Then one day a little lightbulb lit
above the noggin, with this sudden idea. Since I'm not using the darn thing,
what would occur if I were to just go ahead and delete/hide the LTSMMSG.EXE
file? I tried it, and there was not problem at all, no error message
complaining.

So at this point, LTSMMSG has become an old memory, long ago ejected from
its hassle position.

Point being, that's another experiment you could try. If it does turn out
you've no real need for AGRSMMG.EXE, then next see what happens if you hide
the executable somewhere out of your path. Whether, like here, you find you
have the good deal that the calling VXD's routine does not disturb you with
even a message about its fail to find the deleted/moved EXE.
 
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