Csrss.exe and Winlogon.exe

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Yesterday after having a pretty bad scare with my computer being hacked into, the support team helped restore my computer and worked on via team viewer for almost 4 hours, after having this happen I'e been paying attention to detail and have noticed that within task manager neither csrss or winlogon have description, also when i attempt to open csrss.exe via "run" I come up with the notification "application cannot be run in win32 mode" I was hoping someone can clear up the reasons for these three things.

 

Thanks.

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Hello TJ_W,

 

When you initially open Task Manager, you will not see a description for these two processes.

 

Click 'Show processes from all users' and you should then be presented with the descriptions:

 

csrss.exe - Client Server Runtime Process
winlogon.exe - Windows Logon Application

 

Both of these are required processes.  You should avoid trying to run csrss.exe or any other core system process manually.

 

Hope that helps.

 

 

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Thank you for the response and I realize that's probably common knowlege so my ignorance is annoying, but when my computer was under attack the Virus removal squad brought it to my attention that the torjan was hidden within teh csrss.exe file and that's why I was trying to figure out the basics.  Appreciate the response, I'm a little more at ease.

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It's not all common knowledge.  I had never noticed that Task Manager did not show those descriptions until now when I toggled 'Show processes from all users' in order to assist you.  So, I learned something new!

 

None of us knows everything about computers, so no question is annoying.

 

Please feel free to stop by here anytime! 

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TJ,

 

Over in another support forum, someone adapted an opening line from Tolstoy .....

 

                Every computer user is dumb in a different way .....

 

I know I have my own ... only too many!