I just looked at both myself and Administrator.

Right click on Administrator and the description reads "Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the computer/domain"
He is a member of Administrators.

Right click on myself. Same description as Administrator however I am a member of Administrators, Debugger Users & Users. Don't know why I should belong to more groups than the Administrator.

Whatever.

I still don't see where I can change any priviledges. It looks like they are already set.

Try right-clicking SUPERAntiSpyware and, if it is available, choose 'Run As', then choose an administrator account and enter the associated password.

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If that fails, but as a last resort, there is a registry entry which may work;

Hold the Windows Key and hit the 'R' key.
Type regedit into the box.

When regedit opens, navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\Installer

Right click in the right-hand window, click New, click DWORD Value and call it DisableMSI

IF DisableMSI already exists:
Right click DisableMSI and click Modify
In the 'Value data' box, type a 0 (instead of the current 1) to enable the MSI Installer.

Try the install again.

This is the problem I have been having:
Whenever I boot up and logon it takes about 5 minutes before I can do anything. The task manager is running at full throttle.

I installed Process Explorer and this is what I found:
the svchost that is hogging resources is PID 1128 (is the PID the same on all machines?? ) Its description is Generic Host for Win32 Services. Its working with 175 dll's.

At this time, there are 4 other svchosts, PID 908, 980, 1160 & 1248. They are accessing a lot less dll's. 55, 44, 37 & 54 respectively so the culprit is running as much as the other 4 put together.

I did all the pre work as requested however SUPERAntiSpyware will not run in Safe Mode (as per their error message) so I had to do that in normal mode.
I have attached HijackThis.log & SuperAntiSpyware ScanLog-04-19-2008-16-02-17.log although I'm not expecting a lot from them.

A point to note, is that I do have IIS installed (??) and that may be causing a problem. Not sure, but it may be why I do not have any FTP working and I think a lot of the dll's running on PID 1128 may be related to .Net and RAS etc. Does that make sense or am I just confusing the issue?

Just want to give as much info as possible.

Thanks.

Attached Files

	hijackthis.log (6.2 KB, 0 views)
	SUPERAntiSpyware Scan Log - 04-19-2008 - 16-02-17.log (1.0 KB, 0 views)

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Forget this bit. I don't have IIS set up to use FTP

I think I have been able to answer some of my own questions.

I installed Process Explorer which is able to provide a lot more information.

New PID's are assigned each time the PC is turned on although the number will stay in the same range because of the order in which they are loaded.

The number of dll's running under a svchost is immaterial. The same number of dll's will load each time.

I inactivated IIS and everything is running smoothly.

So, to summarize, IIS was causing the CPU to run at 100% for at least 5 minutes.
IIS was using 12 DLL's. The number of DLL's in the svchost dropped from 175 to 163 after inactivating IIS. I'm not sure what those DLL's were. I wish I had taken note. Maybe one of them is corrupt??

My options now are:-
reinstall IIS and if the problem returns note the dll's being used and replace them one by one.
Install apache
Not run either.

That's something I will have to ponder. I am closing this thread as the problem is resolved.
Thanks to all who replied.

Glad you got it sorted.
Well done !!!