Hunting them down

I got a file devldr32.exe that gets executed three times at xp startup, I've tracked it down to three files, renamed them and restart but no luck, they keep executing at startup. I can of course kill them with task manager but the annoying part is that they eat a lot of cpu.

How do i terminate them for good? They are part of creative soundblaster live! software that i have installed (and i also removed all parts except the drivers) but i don't need devldr32.exe for my drivers to work.

I've searched trough the registry, win.ini and system.ini and it's not listed there.

Why not just delete them. If they're not there, they can't open surely

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Originally posted by kedaman
How do i terminate them for good? They are part of creative soundblaster live! software that i have installed (and i also removed all parts except the drivers) but i don't need devldr32.exe for my drivers to work.

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Whenever I killed the process in Windows 2000 my computer wouldn't shut down so you might have to keep them running.

Now it instantiated a new file with the same name in it's place :mad:
What should i do? make a simple do-nothing-exe file in it's place and make it readonly?

OMG :D It almost worked, only 1 file started this time, and it didn't eat any cpu. BUT I WANT IT DEAD!!!!!

Then don't install the Creative drivers. :p

1.0.0.17
DevLdr32
Copyright (C) Creative Technology Ltd. 1998-2001
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\devldr32.exe

THIS FILE IS ABSOLUTELY EVIL!

IT just killed my donothing app which was readonly and put itself in it's place :mad:

Is windowsXP backuping the drivers and restore them in case they get deleted or damaged?

:D, it's like a virus or something. :D

Yeah :mad: it's freaky, anyways it doesn't seem to do anything evil now. not eating cpu as much as before. The problem was probably that there were 3 of them getting stuck with something as all of them wanted to do it at the same time or something :D

Odd thing is, after terminating the files, the comp restarted at times when i ran a specific file. Then after replacing the file with donothing app and testing to run the donothing app (named after the evil one) the comp restarted immediately, and it happened twice :eek:

Also i forgot to mention, the bios had problems detecting the harddrives after last restart. That's not good :(

btw, when i first installed the drivers, that was about some 3 weeks ago, it said that it haven't passed windows logon tests, and i had some problems to make them work. The drivers will probably work well in win2k or any other OS. I've been looking for driver updates for xp at creative's site but nothing yet :/

Alright! New drivers found :D

Having fun talking to yourself? :p

Is that new? :rolleyes:

Ok, just to annoy filburt i'm going to continue this thread :D

hehe, j/k

:p :)

;)

btw, hello Keddie, how are you?

I'm fine thanks, what are you doing?

Ah, I have nothing else to do than post crap here, what about you?

ARGH :mad: He left!

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