Media Center takes up 98% processor

After a nice email from Microsoft I had a new look at media center and tried
to push videos and pictures to my tv through xbox, this didnt work. I then
installed sky player successfully. Then when closed MC down my system was
very slow, I noticed in taskman that stdrt.exe was at 250mb and 98%. Ive
tried a reboot which didnt work. I removed media center from windows in add
remove windows components, after this process was still in memory after
restart. It starts at about 5mb and quickly climbs up the ladder using 250mb
and all the proccessor time.
In order to use pc I have to end task on strd.exe windows media center ...
Has anyone seen this and know how I can fix it?

Many thanks.,.,.

It could be a file related to "Multimedia Fusion 2" and some
gaming/multimedia stuff, but if you do a little searching on the web, you
find some chatter on spyware sites recently that it might also be
malware/Trojan/etc.

Might want do a good malware scan just to be safe or uninstall any recent
multimedia/games and see if that helps.
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"Spider Webster" <> wrote in message
news:3FA40AC1-6225-4F63-8FBC-...
> After a nice email from Microsoft I had a new look at media center and
> tried
> to push videos and pictures to my tv through xbox, this didnt work. I then
> installed sky player successfully. Then when closed MC down my system was
> very slow, I noticed in taskman that stdrt.exe was at 250mb and 98%. Ive
> tried a reboot which didnt work. I removed media center from windows in
> add
> remove windows components, after this process was still in memory after
> restart. It starts at about 5mb and quickly climbs up the ladder using
> 250mb
> and all the proccessor time.
> In order to use pc I have to end task on strd.exe windows media center ...
> Has anyone seen this and know how I can fix it?
>
> Many thanks.,.,.

Wow. No one from microsoft has addressed this? I'm surprised. especially
since this file is from a WINDOWS SERVICE. Since those guys aren't being
upfront about a glitch in the Windows Media Center, I guess I'll step this
one and answer some of the disinfo on the web about this little quirk.

The problem with processor and memory usage is being caused from stdrt.exe
being called by ehRecvr. this is a process that you can go in and disable
from the windows services via services.msc

This Windows Media Center process calls this file stdrt.exe from
C:\Windows\Temp\

I was experiencing the same issue. The wonderful world of the interwebs led
me to believe that this was new malware and that it should be deleted. It's
not. It's just broken, and needs fixed. Fix it, Microsoft. Update team, get
on it.

Here's what I did
-open up task manager find stdrt.exe and end the task
-open up services.msc and disable the Windows Media Center Reciever Service.
then stop the service. it should stop but if it doesn't it's because it
relaunched the stdrt.exe file
-open the file location c:windows\temp and rename the file stdrt.exe. I
advise against deletion until you test it out.

Be advised that this may break your xbox media extender features. it
shouldn't because this service call is only supposed to be for the FM/cable
tuner features (that windows oddly leaves on even if you don't have a tuner.

"Spider Webster" wrote:

> In order to use pc I have to end task on strd.exe windows media center ...
> Has anyone seen this and know how I can fix it?
>
> Many thanks.,.,.

By any chance do you have a NVIDIA chipset? Maybe a postprocessor or enhancer
installed into Media Center/Media player? I'm just trying to figure out why
I'm getting the ballooning file, but here's my system specs. do let me know
if you have any of the same stuff installed or same equipment. maybe there's
a thread of commonality

Core2Quad Q9550 @ 2.8 GhZ
Nvidia P7N motherboard (750i, Nforce 430i)
RAID 10
NVIDIA 9800 Gx2
Win7 x64 Pro

Chipset Drivers are 15.45
Video Drivers are 197.13
I have the Nvidia PureVideo decoder loaded (I only mention because it alters
Media Center's decoder)