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Just a few days ago the Windows Run As dialog started to popup when booting/logging into my Windows XP machine requesting the user with which to run "this program". How do I identify which program "this program" is?
AFAIK nothing has changed on my machine during this time. The only thing that I have done is connect a brand new SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip via USB which automatically installed the necessary drivers and all seemed to work OK.
I have so far hit Cancel on this dialog and everything appears to work normally.
I have looked in the System Event Viewer, but the only consistent item covering this time period seems to be a series of "Information" events under the "ACEEventLog" key. These are apparently to do with my ATI graphics card (Catalyst Control Centre) and from what I have Googled these are harmless. (?) However, I do find it puzzling that these only started appearing in the event log when the Run As dialog started popping up.
So, in summary, how can I find out what program is triggering the Run As dialog? And why?
1Try disabling the (still two?) ATI services in
services.msc
. There should be a hotkey poller and another one. – Synetech – 2012-07-23T14:44:58.910@Synetech Thanks for the tip regarding ATI services. I appear to have only one, ATI HotKey Poller (which I do not seem to require). I have disabled this, but I still get the Run As dialog at login and the events are still logged under ACEEventLog. – MrWhite – 2012-07-24T11:11:16.973
Then it is the CCC. You probably won’t need to modify your card settings every day (and can do so without having it built-into the system and constantly running anyway), so try using Autoruns to identify and disable the CCC startup program and if needed, even the shell-extension (in the Explorer tab).
– Synetech – 2012-07-24T15:20:11.993@Synetech My concern, however, is why the ATI drivers/software should suddenly be giving "problems" after having been installed and running perfectly OK for over 2 years? – MrWhite – 2012-07-25T20:29:34.660
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Those are not errors, or else they would be red. Those are simply informational events (you’ll have to check the events to see exactly what they are notifying you about). Unnecessary informational events are not unusual for ATI; just be glad that you aren’t getting thousands of them (after six years, I gave up and learned to just live with/disable/clear them). To be honest, I don’t think the ATI events are related to the login prompt; it’s probably just a coincidence.
– Synetech – 2012-07-25T21:14:50.143