Rundll32


Version: 1.0
Size:
6KB
Requirements:
No special requirements
Seller:
Gerson Kurz
Price:
Free
System:
Windows 2000/NT
Rating:
4.7
License:
Freeware

Description - Rundll32



One day a Process was eating up 90% of My CPU time, and its name was RUNDLL32. Arg, I hate that ! That Little program is used to start COM objects and other nuisances. So then I patched RUNDLL32 to write its startup arguments to the event log. DownloadThis little hack is released as freeware, without any license attached. Use at own risk. Download here (6.241 bytes). You can also download the complete sourcecode (4.740 bytes).Installation on Windows NT Just Extract rundll32.exe to your winntsystem32 directory. Maybe you`ll want to rename or backup your existing copy of rundll32.exe, you really should.Installation on Windows 2000 Installation on Windows 2000 is a bit more tricky because of the stupid "System File Protection" stuff. Here`s howto: Delete RUNDLL32.EXE from winntsystem32dllcache. This is a "master" directory for the winntsystem32 files SFP keeps.Maybe you`ll want to rename or backup your existing copy of rundll32.exe, you really should.Extract the files from the download archive to winntsystem. You`ll get a warning that rundll32.exe has been replaced, cancel that.Done. Note that the first step is vital, otherwise SFP will silently overwrite the patched version. Duh. Installation on Windows XPI have no idea, I don`t use Windows XP.



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