[Cerek the Barbaric]

Does anybody know the purpose of the file - rundll32.exe??? My PC is acting up a bit lately (especially when I try to play BGII) and when I Restart the computer, this file is ALWAYS active in the background - but is not responding.

I'm having a real problem with my current BGII game and I wonder if this may be part of the reason. Whenever my party goes out after dark and gets attacked by Weimer's Random Attacking Party, my computer screen eventually freezes and I have to hit the Manual Restart button every single time. It is extrememly annoying!!! [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img]

One suggestion by a coworker was to increase the size of my Cache in Windows XP. I've already checked the Config settings in BGII and they are fine...so this sounds reasonable. It just seems that when I get 8-12 characters on the screen doing attacks at the same time, my PC just can't keep up with the action (even though it is only 2 years old and has more than adequate specs to run the game.

One last problem. My home page is constantly being RESET to res://mshp.dll/index.html#37049. I've run Spy Busters, Adaware, AND Hijack This to eliminate the problem. Hijack was the ONLY program that even detected the imbedded software, and it seems incapable of eliminating it. I SCAN and FIX the problem each time...only to have it come right back up the next time I get on the internet.

Any advice, suggestions, or help with ANY of these problems will be greatly appreciated.