Just a few days ago the Windows Run As dialog started to popup when booting/logging into my Windows XP machine requesting the user with which to run "this program". How do I identify which program "this program" is?
AFAIK nothing has changed on my machine during this time. The only thing that I have done is connect a brand new SanDisk Sansa Clip Zip via USB which automatically installed the necessary drivers and all seemed to work OK.
I have so far hit Cancel on this dialog and everything appears to work normally.
I have looked in the System Event Viewer, but the only consistent item covering this time period seems to be a series of "Information" events under the "ACEEventLog" key. These are apparently to do with my ATI graphics card (Catalyst Control Centre) and from what I have Googled these are harmless. (?) However, I do find it puzzling that these only started appearing in the event log when the Run As dialog started popping up.
So, in summary, how can I find out what program is triggering the Run As dialog? And why?
Best Answer
Found elsewhere on the Net. http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/windows/4141498-how-to-disable-this-run-as-window-for-my-xp-please.html?fpart=all&vc=1
The theory is that Microsoft have changed something so that LG update software requires permission to run. I tried disabling lgfw.exe in my msconfig and it SEEMS to work. Of course if you don't have any LG hardware, some other manufacturer's update software could also be affected.