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

Ed Wylot · Jun 1, 2015

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 · Jun 1, 2015

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 · Jun 1, 2015

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 · Jun 1, 2015

jcgriff2 said:
The blue circle is seen on every system at times.

What do you mean by "it animates"?

Little dot goes around the circle

jcgriff2 said:
"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 · Jun 1, 2015

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

Ed Wylot · Jun 1, 2015

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

Patrick · Jun 1, 2015

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

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

Ed Wylot · Jun 2, 2015

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

Click to expand...

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

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

Ed Wylot · Jun 2, 2015

Downloaded winzip.

x BlueRobot · Jun 3, 2015

Could you please also answer the following question?

jcgriff2 said:
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 · Jun 3, 2015

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\

Code:

GoogleChr			f:\appdata\roaming\googlechr\dlhost.exe	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\ -

Code:

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 · Jun 4, 2015

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.

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