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Dawn Angelheart · Nov 20, 2009, 12:39 PM // 12:39

Yeah so i woke up to my computer this morning refusing to come out of hibernate. I left it on downloading and it auto installed an update for windows defender. now my computer is running very slow. This happens a 1-2 a month i usually roll it back a day or two and its fine. When it refuses to come out of hibernate it says no visual input and the monitor goes off, and the light on the computer stays orange when its usually blue.

This time i decided to see whats making it go so slow, im not that great with computers but i know enough to get me around.

It seems i have two rundll32.exe's running at the same time in my processes tab or task manager. Is this bad? one runs for 1074k and the other for 2348k.

also i've only just defragged and cleaned out my computer a few days ago,
I run a nightly scan at 10pm for virus's with AVG and besides what i download that stays on my computer for about 2-3 days then everything is moved and kept on two external hard drives.

specs are 3gb ram.

AMD phenom 9500 quad core processor 2.20 GHz

And i'm running Vista.

Anyone got any clue as to why the slow downs happen? or about the Rundll32's?

Revelations · Nov 20, 2009, 01:28 PM // 13:28

As far as I'm aware, rundll32 is a process that allows your system to run code from within dll files as a "standalone" application. It is not uncommon to have multiple instances of it running on some systems, each parsing a different dll file.

However, I have heard of various malware programs posing as this application. As a quick check, do a simple windows search for exe files called rundll32 on the drive that your windows is installed on. If it turns up anywhere other than WindowsFolder/System32 then you have malware running on your system, despite what AVG is telling you. You are not necessarily in the clear even if it does only appear in the above folder.

There is also the possibility that your problem is entirely unrelated to said application. Specifically, how did you determine that it was rundll32 causing the problem? Are there any common procedures you perform before the problem occurs - running a certain program for instance?

The final possibility I have to throw down on the table is that it could be a video card issue. It sounds like your card may not recognize that the system has come out of hibernation on occasion. Try completely uninstalling your graphics drivers, and reinstalling the latest ones from scratch.

If all the above fails, then I'm temporarily stumped.

Good luck with it.