rundll32.exe problem

[Guest]

With increasing frequency, a DVD I'm playing or video clips I'm using in
PowerPoint presentations on my laptop will begin to slow and become "choppy."
In checking the Task Manager, it appears that rundll32.exe is the culprit. It
shows using 95 to 99% of the CPU! When I attempt to shut down the computer
after this incident, it shows that rundll.32.exe is not responding and do I
want to end now. I understand that the rundll32.exe is a necessary program,
but is there a fix for this? Amazingly, it does not happen each time I play a
DVD or use embedded video clips in PowerPoint, but is is happening almost
everytime now. Thank you for any help!

 

[Jon]

rundll32.exe runs routines within dll files, and is unlikely to be the cause
in itself - the particular dll function is more likely to blame.

To narrow it down further you could perhaps use filemon, putting a filter on
rundll32.exe, which may reveal the culprit dll.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

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Jon

If we complicate things they get less simple.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that "ncpilot"

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

As Jon said.

See also:

List all processes and their Command-line parameters:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/listproc.htm

What's the suspicious Rundll32.exe process?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rundll32.htm

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


rundll32.exe runs routines within dll files, and is unlikely to be the cause
in itself - the particular dll function is more likely to blame.

To narrow it down further you could perhaps use filemon, putting a filter on
rundll32.exe, which may reveal the culprit dll.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html

--
Jon

If we complicate things they get less simple.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that "ncpilot"