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[Ash]

Right, so I seem to get this resource-hog of a bastard appear whenever I play certain games (Guild Wars and Oblivion to name two). Basically, neither game will load up right off. They'll flunk and then need to be re-started when this prog is running before they'll fire up.

I wouldn't mind except that rundll32.exe will use up an entire core all to itself and slow everything up.

I've done a cursory net search. My issue is not to do with a trojan, malware or any other such malicious program. Which seems to be the only issue that consistently appears to affect this program.

Anyone know how to stop it from crapping out like this?

[Destroyer]

Well, figure out what dll is being run. Spybot has a nice process list program, if you already have spybot, which would help you figure that out.

[Ash]

It just points to a folder, not a specific dll - C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ which is apparently just the path to rundll32 itself.

[Beowulf]

Process Explorer works better for this than Spybot ever will.

[Ash]

Ok, just used that. I got this:

The path used was:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe

In the command line:
C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\system32\gameux.dll,GameUXShim {01d1727d-35a3-455d-816c-206c9dff83f8};F:\Guild Wars\Gw.exe;2332

That was for Guild Wars.

The question is, however, what do I do about it?
After a little digging I've found out this is to do with Win7's Games Explorer. This is fucking up Oblivon starting up as well as Guild Wars (and probably a number of other games too). How the hell do I get rid of this Games Explorer shit so I can have all four of my cores making games work?

[Beowulf]

Perhaps consult the almighty oracle of google?

[Ash]

I did that too. No joy.

[Beowulf]

http://www.neowin.ne...games-explorer/

http://www.neowin.ne...t__p__592577038 <- This specifically. I would backup the registry before you do anything though.

[Ash]

Saw both of those...neither one really helped, unfortunately. I tried the removal thing. Made no difference. Same goes for instructing it to not try to download cover art. Rundll still opens, and those two games still don't fire up on first attempt.

Still would like to remove Games Explorer tho.