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WINSYSLDR.EXE<\/p>\n
Unhandled exception in WINSYSLDR.EXE (0xCD003592) Division by zero.<\/p>\n
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Not knowing if it was a malicious thing, i.e., a fake pop-up box where if you click “OK” you’re actually launching some evil virus, I Googled WINSYSLDR.EXE. and got…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n NOTHING.<\/p>\n Yes, that’s right- the Internet has NO knowledge of WINSYSLDR.EXE. Now, everybody knows that a Division by Zero error can happen from time to time if an application is written poorly. This pop-up dialogue box has all the marks of a legitimate error message… EXCEPT for the fact that nobody in the world ever seems to have heard of WINSYSLDR.EXE. That is impossible.<\/p>\n My next step to investigate this strange error is, obviously, to search my system for WINSYSLDR.EXE. It took a while, since I run a very bloated XP machine, loaded with crap, including drivers & extra programs for my Triple Monitor Setup. But, sadly, the little puppy found nothing. NOTHING!! The file does not EXIST on my machine!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Luckily, the dialogue was still on my desktop, so I used a little trick to find out exactly what process was feeding the dialogue box. By pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL, I brought up the Task Manager and sort by CPU. Then I drag the dialogue around the screen quickly by the title bar, and watch for some process to start taking more CPU power. The only process I could see that was accelerating when I did that was my “UltraMonTaskbar.exe”. I killed it, and the pop-up remained. Perhaps it was just too small to register on the top of the task list, but at this point I had to move on to other things and so I just “X”‘ed the dialogue, rebooted, and posted this blog.<\/p>\n shrug….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today my XP machine popped up with the following dialogue box: WINSYSLDR.EXE Unhandled exception in WINSYSLDR.EXE (0xCD003592) Division by zero. Not knowing if it was a malicious thing, i.e., a fake pop-up box where if you click “OK” you’re actually launching some evil virus, I Googled WINSYSLDR.EXE. and got… NOTHING. Yes,… Continue reading Strange Windows Pop-up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n