VanguardLH on Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:52:18 -0600 typed in
alt.windows7.general the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:

there is nothing in the startup menus which I can determine starts
msinfo32.exe. Part of the problem is, I've yet to find out why
msinfo32.exe is being run _at all_,

The Start menu's Startup folder (under your profile and under the All
Users profile) is just one of *MANY* places to specify a program loads
on Windows load, on login, on an event, as a scheduled task, etc. Did
you actually yet use msconfig.exe to look at the list of startup items?
If it is listed in msconfig then you need something more robust to list
all startup locations, like SysInternals' AutoRuns (where you can even
search on "msinfo" to find it is defined in the dozens and dozens of
startup locations).

I have checked through cc-cleaner. for what is loaded at startup.
C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Internet Security\cstray.exe
is the only Comodo program 'loaded'.

other than apparently because MS thinks it a neat idea to run it.

Wrong. No version of Windows has ever had msinfo32.exe as a default
startup program.

Which is not the problem. The problem is, that when msinfo32 is
loaded and run, it hogs enough resources that for the next three to
five minutes, my computer is "closed for lunch". If lucky, I might
be able to get to the process msinfo32.exe before it is done and kill
it. Just as often, by the time I can do anything, the process has
closed and my computer is now "back from lunch" and ready to resume
working.
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pyotr filipivich
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