VopThis..Thanks for replying. You are absolutely right about Taskeng. After I wrote you guys, I checked my Sysinternals Process Explorer and clarified exactly what was going on. One Taskeng was handling three different tasks, including one that was multimedia.

The other Taskeng was handling another one of those generic Microsoft tasks. So I feel better about things now. Also, I guess that funky WinCleaner Antispyware, which I kinda knew was a piece of junk even before I out it own, saw it as a false positive. I have since uninstalled it, along with that old Spyware Doctor I mentioned. The one that's not even supposed to run on x64!

The reason I am also uninstalling the older Spyware Doctor is because I believe that, because of incompatibility, it is probably picking up false positives much more than a modern x64 compatible version would. Twice now it has alerted on exlporer.exe in the System 32 folder and each time it listed it as a trojan, each with a different name.

Then it recommended that I reboot to get rid of it, which I did. What are your feelings on this?. As far as I know, there's no way to infect a key windows component like explorer.exe, is there? Either way I still uninstalled it.

While were on the subject of antispyware apps, I just have one more question. I have have tried CounterSpy before in the past and like it very much. I would love to add that as my main antispyware app, but one thing about it bugs me. It always runs in the system tray, eating up resources, even if it is unchecked to run at startup in msconfig.

I emailed Sunbelt Software about this and they said that's the way it was designed. Is there anyway that you know of to have it not run in the system tray upon startup?