Little blue animated circle on desktop constantly blinks twice and then animates.

[Ed Wylot]

Found that ending the process "svchost.exe *32 would stop the problem. I have to do this every time I boot up. Don't know why this problem started showing up.
Any help/thoughts on this?

 

[jcgriff2]

The blue circle is seen on every system at times.

What do you mean by "it animates"?

"svchost" - runs System Services -- it's not uncommon to have 10+ of these running at the same time

 

[x BlueRobot]

Do you mind please downloading Autoruns?

Save the output of the program, and then upload in a zipped folder. The program may take while to stop scanning your system.

Please ensure the following Options are set accordingly:

 

[Ed Wylot]

The blue circle is seen on every system at times.

What do you mean by "it animates"?

Little dot goes around the circle

"svchost" - runs System Services -- it's not uncommon to have 10+ of these running at the same time

Only have 1 instance running

 

[Ed Wylot]

Ok, I set the options...now what?

 

[Ed Wylot]

Ok, I have the report zipped...where do I send it?

 

[Patrick]

Ok, I have the report zipped...where do I send it?​

Attach it here using the attachment system in your next post.

 

[Ed Wylot]

Ok, I have the report zipped...where do I send it?​

Attach it here using the attachment system in your next post.

Don't have winzip..used 7 Zip..would not upload.

 

[Ed Wylot]

Downloaded winzip.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Could you please also answer the following question?

The blue circle is seen on every system at times.

What do you mean by "it animates"?

I've noticed that you have some Asus bloatware installed, I would highly recommend that you remove those programs.

• Asus PCProbe Utility (AsIO.sys)
• Asus Ai Booster (ASInsHelp.sys)

 

[jcgriff2]

Hi -

Also, under "Logon" tab (AutoRuns), there are several (>5...?) instances of dlhost.exe running out of a drive F folder that looks like it should be under your user profile folders - f:\appdata\roaming\googlechr\

GoogleChr			[COLOR="#FF0000"]f:\appdata\roaming\googlechr\dlhost.exe[/COLOR]	1/29/2012 5:32 PM

Did you install Google Chrome to drive F?

What is drive F?

\appdata\roaming\ are sub-folders found under every user profile.

If you bring up a CMD screen and paste the following, it will list the contents of \appdata\roaming\ -

dir %userprofile%\appdata\roaming >0 & start notepad 0

It is very odd for me to see \appdata\roaming\ under a drive letter instead of a user profile unless of course you have substituted/mapped drive F: for your user profile.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

 

[Ed Wylot]

C drive is on an SSD, F drive is my 'data' drive which I also use to instal programs on, in an effort to free up space on C for pc games and important programs.

The \appdata\roaming\ problem cropped up when Maximum PC magazine highlighted a program to move those files to a HDD to free up space on an SSD.
Some folders transferred,some did not and some were duplicates! At a loss now to know what to do about this. This weird situation has not affected my pc in anyway that I can see.