Every couple of seconds, in win98, my mouse cursor turns into an hour glass. So, I figured something strange was running. I downloaded a program which is like task manager in NT to see what process was doing this. It turned out that it is msgsrv32.exe using an average of 30% of my processor all of the time! It jumps between 30 and 50% cpu usage constantly, even at idle. I thought it might be a virus, so I updated my virus scanner as of 9/20/2001, which includes the fix for the nimda virus. It still detects nothing. This problem doesn't occur exactly at startup. It won't happen at all unless I run basically any program. What does this sound like?

Howdy, MSGSRV32 is a core file of windows and is needed to run properly, it controls a lot of windows multi-media type functions. It is hard to find good information though on MSGSRV32, I can tell you this. It can be a pain to sort out what is causing the problem. The list of TechNet articles alone on MSGSRV32 is crazy. Without more details about your system and what you are running in the background, I'm going to be of little help. Laters, KTTD

I am running a pentium 3 933mhz, 128mb ram, abit st6-raid motherboard with onboard sound, abit siluro geforce2 mx400 agp 64mb vid card, dual 40gb maxtor drives in raid-striping configuration, optical mouse, 2 cd-rom drives, t1 connection with pci lan card. Running processes are msgsrv32.exe, explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, taskman.exe, kernel32.dll, mdm.exe, mmtask.tsk, mcafee virus (various tasks), ddhelp.exe, systray.exe, mstask.exe, wmiexe.exe, mprexe.exe. That seems to be all that is running right now. I'll reply with any more info that you might need. Thanks, -Erik

Try removing Mcafee, You may be suprised at the improvement! If not just put it back. I have know Mcafee to slow machines down, Stop scandisk working etc. I never got as far as finding out why though, but it does perform background scans and intercepts disk read/writes so you would expect extra load on the system.

I recently installed "Quick Hide" on my computer. The next day, MSGSRV32.exe was detected by my firewall as trying to access the internet and the creation date of MSGSRV32.exe is November 10, 2001! Can anyone tell me why it was created one day ago and why this is happening? If it is a core file, why would it be created yesterday? I am running Windows ME.

Hi, I'm having problems with msgsrv32.exe also. Me and my uncle have been chewing this thing to death, looking at dll's, peeking at the innards of ntdll.dll, mpr.dll, etc. The mouse cursor flashes about 10 times a second between the arrow and hourglass. After some idle time, it stops until I load a program, then it sees that I'm back at the computer and it's time to annoy Kleb. >:-) Also, killing the program stops the mouse problem. In a task manager, when windows(clean install) is loaded, the process modules that msgsrv32.exe has loaded are advapi32.dll, gdi32.dll, kernel32.dll, mpr.dll, user32.dll. . .when just clean installed. When on the internet, lots of other things are included in the process modules list. One thing that struck me as interesting was that when not on the internet, mpr.dll had + or - 1568 process usage count. When on the internet, mpr is maxed out(I guess) at 65535 process usage count. In safe mode, mpr.dll had only 11 process usage count. Sorry that this article is in dire need of defrag, but I'm in a hurry. In normal mode, no extranneous drivers, just a clean install, mouse flashes, advapi32.dll, gdi32.dll, kernel32.dll, mpr.dll, and user32.dll are loaded in the process modules list. In safe mode, two additional dll's are added to the list: cfgmgr32.dll and ntdll.dll. No problem w/mouse cursor. I'm guessing the mouse pointer flashing is tied to the amount of processes of mpr.dll are loaded. Hope this helps and that you can help me.