Normally I have my portable software on an USB stick. But it got damaged and so I copied everything to my notebook. When I start it local, everything works fine. But when I share the folder over my network and start Firefor or Thunderbird from it,
windows doesn't respond for about 30 seconds until everything is loaded. Then it's fine. I used Sysinternals Process Monitor to find out what's going on. I saw that my CPU is used by 40% for Deferred Procedure Calls. And what's also strange is that my Firefox and Thunderbird are not really subprocesses of FirefoxPortable.exe or ThunderbirdPortable.exe. They are subprocess of
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
Process Tree
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Whenever I start any other PortableApps program with the launcher, everything is fine.
What could this be?
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Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from DLLs.
as Sysinternals Process Monitor here at work, but using tasklist /svc I find that firefox.exe is nested at FirefoxPortable.exe.
I don't have anything fancy
I don't know why firefox.exe is running as a service...
Try typing tasklist /svc at the prompt window and let us know if the program returns the same results.
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