Satch
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- Nov 24, 2003
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For a while now one of my PC's has been playing up, something chuntering away using 50%+ of CPU despite no applications running, hanging and sometimes the dreaded BSOD. GRRRR!
No virus, Trojon, malware or spyware I could find.
Eventually tracked it down to a happy combination of some Windows XP upgrades (making it more Vista ish) and the inner workings of Roxio DVD/CD burning software in the shape of their Sonic DLA offering.
So what did they say?
If you do not use DLA, then you may want just disable the application as follows:
Go to Start-->Run
Type in "msconfig" and hit "OK"
The System Configuration Utility window will pop up.
Select the Startup tab
Under the Startup Item column, locate "tfswctrl.exe", uncheck it, and then click "Apply".
Close the System Configuration Utility and choose to restart the PC
http://kb.roxio.com/content/kb/DLA/000001DL?set-locale=en
Oh right. So do not bother trying to make it work then.
Anyway, killed off tfswctrl.exe at Startup, ran System Mechanic and lo, normal service restored.
No virus, Trojon, malware or spyware I could find.
Eventually tracked it down to a happy combination of some Windows XP upgrades (making it more Vista ish) and the inner workings of Roxio DVD/CD burning software in the shape of their Sonic DLA offering.
So what did they say?
If you do not use DLA, then you may want just disable the application as follows:
Go to Start-->Run
Type in "msconfig" and hit "OK"
The System Configuration Utility window will pop up.
Select the Startup tab
Under the Startup Item column, locate "tfswctrl.exe", uncheck it, and then click "Apply".
Close the System Configuration Utility and choose to restart the PC
http://kb.roxio.com/content/kb/DLA/000001DL?set-locale=en
Oh right. So do not bother trying to make it work then.
Anyway, killed off tfswctrl.exe at Startup, ran System Mechanic and lo, normal service restored.