How can I get more info on high-CPU rundll32.exe process?
- by Herb Caudill
I recently clean-installed Win7 on my HP8530. Everything works well most of the time, but for the last few days, every morning after my computer has been idle overnight, I find that rundll32.exe is consuming a steady 50% of CPU (i.e. all of one processor). The only way I can make it go away is by restarting.
Process Explorer has no information on what the process is running. If I try to do anything to rundll32.exe (kill process, suspend, etc.) I get "Error opening process: Access is denied." None of the tabs in the ProcExp properties dialog has any information at all.
I have Norton Internet Security running with the latest definitions; I've run a full system scan and it gives me a clean bill of health.
How can I get more information on why this process is running?