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What is this RunDll32 instance running?

I stumbled upon an instance of rundll32 while checking on the running processes on my windows 10 box. This is the command line that started it according to Process Explorer: C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe -localserver…
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rundll32.exe invagent.dll eating 100% CPU

I am running Windows 8.1 Update in a Parallels VM. After about 5 minutes of inactivity, a rundll32.exe process is spawned and consumes a core. MsMpEng.exe activity also increases. (probably due to lots of IO but I can't confirm) If I interact with…
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Windows 7: Safely Remove Hardware keyboard shortcut not working

A popular keyboard shortcut to invoke the Safely Remove Hardware dialog is to use the destination as: Rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL HotPlug.dll The dialog that is displayed when this shortcut is invoked worked fine in Windows XP. In…
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Under what circumstances can I use rundll32 to invoke a function in a DLL?

I'd like to invoke the functionality found in various Windows DLLs from the command line. It looks like the rundll32 utility will do what I need - it takes a DLL name and a function name, and runs that function with parameters. I certainly hope…
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run32.dll on Windows 7?

Each time, I run my favorite game (Starcraft) on Windows 7, my PC gets way too slow, and when I checked the running process, I found a process with the name run32.dll taking over almost 90% of the processor? What is that process, and does it have…
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Replace Windows' drive format tool with Rufus

I recently came across the Super User question How do I place a bootable ISO on a USB drive? in my endeavour to find the easiest way to write the contents of an ISO image to a flash drive. However, after finding the above, I started a mission to see…
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Windows 7 - when running old games, rundll32 is started for the first time

When I try to run some old games (specifically Diablo 2 now), when I double click the game icon, nothing happens, except for a Rundll32.exe starts under my current user, which consumes one of my CPU. I can get to the game by running it "again" -…
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How can I get more info on high-CPU rundll32.exe process?

I recently clean-installed Win7 on my HP8530. Everything works well most of the time, but for the last few days, every morning after my computer has been idle overnight, I find that rundll32.exe is consuming a steady 50% of CPU (i.e. all of one…
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How to start CLSIDs from the command line?

Some of my shortcuts in Windows are pointing to targets that look like CLSIDs, and I cannot modify the target, it's grayed out. They look like this: {ED228FDF-9EA8-4870-83b1-96b02CFE0D52} (non-working example). Is there a way to "start" these CLSIDs…
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Multiple instance of rundll32.exe found, but what are they doing ? Suspious?

I recently found there are always two instance of rundll32.exe running on my computer. I was able to retrieve info about modules that are using them, but what are these modules? Am I infected by a hard to remove virus ? Or worse, my computer is…
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Missing module error: nvsql.ole

The following error message pops up at 10:29 AM every day, and has done so consistently for about six months: There was a problem starting C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\wupdate\nvsql.ole The specified module could not be found. I'd like to do at…
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ClearMyTracksByProcess - all options?

I've seen the list of values floating around the internet for ClearMyTracksByProcess Delete Temporary Internet Files: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8 Delete Cookies: RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2 Delete…
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Windows 7: Windows Photo Viewer does not work

After I changed the ProgramFilesDir to D:\Program Files manually, the Windows Photo Viewer did not work again. It failed to start with error messagebox Rundll: could not found D:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll. How could I get…
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Open Additional Device Properties via Commandline

In Windows 10 under Settings > System > Sound > Device Properties there is a link to a related setting called "Additional device properties", where you have the Tabs General/Listen/Levels/Advanced. I would like to directly display the advanced…
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ClearMyTracksByProcess 10554 slowing down Win7 PC (rundll32.exe inetcpl.cpl)

Here's complete info from the Command Line in Task Manager: rundll32.exe C:\Windows\system32\inetcpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 10554 There are 2 of those running, taking up 150K to 900k memory & 5 - 30% CPU. I end them, and everything's fine.…
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