Windows Media Center - STDRT.EXE always running?

Can anyone tell me why this is running all the time on my Vista Enterprise
Core to Duo machine at 65% of CPU according to Windows Task Manager? I do
not even have Windows Media Center installed on this machine or at least I
cannot see where I can run it. To the best of my knowledge it is not part of
Vista Enterprise OS???

I downloaded/installed/ ran a program called Combofix (after going through
some changes getting there site). It ran in a DOS box for about 10 minutes.
After it completed it left a history file re; what it did (I could not
understand it).
When I attempted to use/click any icon on my desktop I received an error msg
the program was slated for deletion???

After complete panic I decided to reboot and try to access programs
again..... It Worked... It seems that after Combofix runs a reboot is also
required...

At any rate, after rebooting (about 2 hrs.) STDRT.exe & Windows Media Ctr
has no logger appeared running in my Windows Task Mgr.

Somehow/Someway The UAC problem seems to be fixed as well although I did
nothing specific but run Combofix. I suspect they were connected somehow...

What is really fascinating to me is how this STDRT.exe got on my machine to
begin with as I am running several antivirus programs simultaneously, (AVG,
Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials, Etc,).

It these guys that create these virus's decided to create a legal product
for market they could probably be millionaires...

"Dave-UK" <> wrote in message
news: ...
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> "Artreid" <> wrote in message
> news:...
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>> Can anyone tell me why this is running all the time on my Vista
>> Enterprise Core to Duo machine at 65% of CPU according to Windows Task
>> Manager? I do not even have Windows Media Center installed on this
>> machine or at least I cannot see where I can run it. To the best of my
>> knowledge it is not part of Vista Enterprise OS???
>>
>>
>
> Did you resolve your problem with the UAC switching itself off?
> I haven't seen any feedback from you.
>
>
>

One piece of advice often given by contributors to newsgroups and by makers
of antivirus programs is *never* to run two or more antivirus programs
simultaneously.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:41:37 -0400, Artreid wrote:

> I downloaded/installed/ ran a program called Combofix (after going through
> some changes getting there site). It ran in a DOS box for about 10 minutes.
> After it completed it left a history file re; what it did (I could not
> understand it).
> When I attempted to use/click any icon on my desktop I received an error msg
> the program was slated for deletion???
>
> After complete panic I decided to reboot and try to access programs
> again..... It Worked... It seems that after Combofix runs a reboot is also
> required...
>
> At any rate, after rebooting (about 2 hrs.) STDRT.exe & Windows Media Ctr
> has no logger appeared running in my Windows Task Mgr.
>
> Somehow/Someway The UAC problem seems to be fixed as well although I did
> nothing specific but run Combofix. I suspect they were connected somehow...
>
> What is really fascinating to me is how this STDRT.exe got on my machine to
> begin with as I am running several antivirus programs simultaneously, (AVG,
> Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials, Etc,).
>
> It these guys that create these virus's decided to create a legal product
> for market they could probably be millionaires...
>
> "Dave-UK" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
>>
>> "Artreid" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me why this is running all the time on my Vista
>>> Enterprise Core to Duo machine at 65% of CPU according to Windows Task
>>> Manager? I do not even have Windows Media Center installed on this
>>> machine or at least I cannot see where I can run it. To the best of my
>>> knowledge it is not part of Vista Enterprise OS???
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Did you resolve your problem with the UAC switching itself off?
>> I haven't seen any feedback from you.
>>
>>
>>


--
Gene E. Bloch

Thanks, Gene,
It would seem it does not help much anyway :-)

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
news:cckti9c27mdr.h69euw780woj$....
> One piece of advice often given by contributors to newsgroups and by
> makers
> of antivirus programs is *never* to run two or more antivirus programs
> simultaneously.
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:41:37 -0400, Artreid wrote:
>
>> I downloaded/installed/ ran a program called Combofix (after going
>> through
>> some changes getting there site). It ran in a DOS box for about 10
>> minutes.
>> After it completed it left a history file re; what it did (I could not
>> understand it).
>> When I attempted to use/click any icon on my desktop I received an error
>> msg
>> the program was slated for deletion???
>>
>> After complete panic I decided to reboot and try to access programs
>> again..... It Worked... It seems that after Combofix runs a reboot is
>> also
>> required...
>>
>> At any rate, after rebooting (about 2 hrs.) STDRT.exe & Windows Media Ctr
>> has no logger appeared running in my Windows Task Mgr.
>>
>> Somehow/Someway The UAC problem seems to be fixed as well although I did
>> nothing specific but run Combofix. I suspect they were connected
>> somehow...
>>
>> What is really fascinating to me is how this STDRT.exe got on my machine
>> to
>> begin with as I am running several antivirus programs simultaneously,
>> (AVG,
>> Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials, Etc,).
>>
>> It these guys that create these virus's decided to create a legal product
>> for market they could probably be millionaires...
>>
>> "Dave-UK" <> wrote in message
>> news: ...
>>>
>>> "Artreid" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me why this is running all the time on my Vista
>>>> Enterprise Core to Duo machine at 65% of CPU according to Windows Task
>>>> Manager? I do not even have Windows Media Center installed on this
>>>> machine or at least I cannot see where I can run it. To the best of my
>>>> knowledge it is not part of Vista Enterprise OS???
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you resolve your problem with the UAC switching itself off?
>>> I haven't seen any feedback from you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch

Apologies Dave,

I believe I did solve the as it went away when I cleaned up STDRT.exe issue.

"Dave-UK" <> wrote in message
news:-...
>
> "Artreid" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I downloaded/installed/ ran a program called Combofix (after going
>> through some changes getting there site). It ran in a DOS box for about
>> 10 minutes. After it completed it left a history file re; what it did (I
>> could not understand it).
>> When I attempted to use/click any icon on my desktop I received an error
>> msg the program was slated for deletion???
>>
>> After complete panic I decided to reboot and try to access programs
>> again..... It Worked... It seems that after Combofix runs a reboot is
>> also required...
>>
>> At any rate, after rebooting (about 2 hrs.) STDRT.exe & Windows Media Ctr
>> has no logger appeared running in my Windows Task Mgr.
>>
>> Somehow/Someway The UAC problem seems to be fixed as well although I did
>> nothing specific but run Combofix. I suspect they were connected
>> somehow...
>>
>> What is really fascinating to me is how this STDRT.exe got on my machine
>> to begin with as I am running several antivirus programs simultaneously,
>> (AVG, Avast, Microsoft Security Essentials, Etc,).
>>
>> It these guys that create these virus's decided to create a legal product
>> for market they could probably be millionaires...
>>
>
> It would be helpful if you had at least closed the thread if the problem
> has been
> resolved and not just leave it hanging in limbo before starting another
> one.
> People who respond to questions generally like to have some sort of
> feedback
> as to whether their advice was of any use or not.
>
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