I'm sure. That was a copy/paste from the program itself. And yeah, I know, the only info I could find on it was that it was part of Netgear Update Assistant and that is mostly because many hits on that program show that "Netgear Update Assistant" is the name of the folder its in. Ed -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:18 PM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Netgear router I can find little to no reliable info on that process. Are you certain the name is LANUpdate.exe, without any spaces, dashes, etc.? Peace, Gman http://www.bornagainamerican.org "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "EddieB" <fasteddieb216@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:41 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Netgear router > Anyone else have a Netgear router? > > I've been having some problems with my PC lately that I tracked down to my > Netgear routers' update assistant. Almost every day both IE and Explorer > would stop responding and I would have to reboot to fix. I was getting to > the point where I was preparing to reinstall Windows. Several days ago I > had too much running on my PC to be able to reboot so I started killing > processes. After killing LANUpdate.exe (from Netgear), all of a sudden > several IE and Explorer windows popped up. I stopped it from running > automatically and I haven't had the problem since then. > > Ed --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------