One Program Running

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I have Windows XP Pro. On the Welcome screen it always says that the
user that is logged on with ID 0 has one program running. When I open
that account, however, nothing shows up on the task bar. Nothing shows
up in the Applications list of Task Manager. I do have a bunch of apps.
running in the System Tray.

Where should I look to determine the identity of that one program?

Brian
 
check the process tab of Taskmanager.
ID 0 is is likely to be the SYSTEM process (ie. your 'puter')
the tab should give you info on the userid's involved.
you might also stop by www.sysinternals.com and get a copy of Process
Explorer. (Great tool for these kind of investigations)

hth

george
 
Please let me clarify. By "ID 0" I meant Session ID 0, i.e. the first
person to log on. After much digging, it turns out that the culprit was
the WinFax Pro service. I've changed it to a manual start and will now
try figuring out what it does for me since I seldom send faxes and never
receive them.

BTW, Process ID 0 does belong to System. It is the System Idle Process.
 
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