hanging app

[J Lunis]

Recently, on waking my PC in the AM, I have a popup telling me an app
(ERU) is? was? running but stopped. The progress bar doesn't move so I
stop the app. I have no idea why this app is running or how long it has
been running. To my knowledge, I have not set it to tun automatically.
Best I can tell, ERU has no ability to start itself on schedule. I
have checked Task scheduler but can find nothing there indicating it
starts ERU. How/where can I find why ERU is starting?

 

[Michael]

Recently, on waking my PC in the AM, I have a popup telling me an app
(ERU) is? was? running but stopped. The progress bar doesn't move so I
stop the app. I have no idea why this app is running or how long it has
been running. To my knowledge, I have not set it to tun automatically.
Best I can tell, ERU has no ability to start itself on schedule. I have
checked Task scheduler but can find nothing there indicating it starts
ERU. How/where can I find why ERU is starting?

Have you recently downloaded an app to listen to music or watch videos?
Have you visited lastfm?

 

[J Lunis]

Have you recently downloaded an app to listen to music or watch videos?
Have you visited lastfm?

Nope. MediaMonkey, but that was last winter.

 

[J Lunis]

ERU was an Emergency Recovery Utility for Windows 95.
Are you talking about Erunt ?
www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Yeah ERUNT. My mistake.

 

[J Lunis]

You may have it set to do a daily backup via the Startup folder in the
Start menu.
(If you've got UAC turned off you won't see any messages.)

If I understand this correctly, Start|Programs|Startup . . . no ERUNT
noted. Ummm, what is 'UAC?'

 

[J Lunis]

User Account Control.
If you installed Erunt then you would have been offered the option of
having
your registry backed up on a daily basis. The default is on a rolling 30
day cycle.
The installer package, if you had agreed to it, would have put a
shortcut in the
Startup folder to run Autoback.exe when you logged on. The program runs
once a day.
If you have UAC enabled then you would get a message telling you that
Windows
has stopped the program from running ( or something like that).
So to get Erunt to do a daily back-up you either turn off UAC or create
a task
to run the daily back-up. The program that does the back-up is called
Autoback.exe.
It's in the Erunt folder.
Does any of this sound familiar ?
If you have UAC enabled and haven't created a task to run it
automatically then
I don't know why Erunt is running on its own.

Thanks. Maybe this is progress. No AutoBack in StartUp . . . BUT, I

have a 'registry.vbs' in the ERUNT folder which opens the ERUNT folder
and runs the app. Seems I remember getting that a few years ago. I
suppose my next step is to find what is running the vbs.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Recently, on waking my PC in the AM, I have a popup telling me an app
(ERU) is? was? running but stopped. The progress bar doesn't move so I
stop the app. I have no idea why this app is running or how long it has
been running. To my knowledge, I have not set it to tun automatically.
Best I can tell, ERU has no ability to start itself on schedule. I
have checked Task scheduler but can find nothing there indicating it
starts ERU. How/where can I find why ERU is starting?

In addition to Dave-UK's helpful suggestions, you can download Autoruns
from the Microsoft site. Run it and wait for it to finish loading its data,
and be amazed at how many items are run at startup and how many places
there are to start them from.

Then you run Autoruns's search command and try to find the program you're
concerned about.