Hi,

This is my first post. Forgive me I made any mistake...

I've a new server (less than 2 months old) which is running win server 2003 with 2GB RAM. Today I noticed that the server seemed a bit slow so I went to task manager to check what process is running.. I notice that the CPU Usage is actually 100% and there are 4 userinit.exe running under processes. I tried to end them but it doesn't work.

I have done some research and it seemed like userinit.exe is a system program. But why is it taking so much CPU usage?

Help... :confused:

Thanks

Cloud

USERINIT.EXE is part of Windows XP. --- Not sure about win server 2003

Under normal circumstances, this program will run for a few seconds

After you log in, and then it should disappear from the task manager.

USERINIT.EXE is part of Windows XP. --- Not sure about win server 2003

Under normal circumstances, this program will run for a few seconds

after you log in, and then it should disappear from the task manager.

But these 4 process has been running the whole day since morning...

I have also this kind of problem
My task manager fill of Multiple userinit.exe , start menu and desktop is hidden only task manager is working.

Usually you can pop in the install disk and run a repair and that solves it. Most cases, it is some sort of spyware and is more annoying than troublesome. I suggest you do a repair to preserve your current environment. After that do a couple of spyware scans and you should solve the problem.

I suggest malewarebytes for one.

If you can't get your hands on a cd to do a repair try this.

Download userinit.exe

userinit.exe - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage (http://www.box.net/shared/5z15e30tbq)

Boot into safe mode, and do an advanced search, the entire drive (System Folders Included) for userinit.exe. Delete any files that have that exact name that are not in C:\Windows\system32.

Copy your downloaded version into C:\Windows\system32 and allow it to overwrite.

Reboot

That is basically what a repair does, it just rewrites all the system files from the disk.

Good Luck.