Why Does COM Surrogate Run Every Half Hour

[JamesJ]

After much investigating I found that a Windows process called COM Surrogate runs every half hour or so, then closes.
What is COM Surrogate and why does it run so often??

Thanks,
James

 

[IanS100]

After much investigating I found that a Windows process called COM Surrogate runs every half hour or so, then closes.
What is COM Surrogate and why does it run so often??

Thanks,
James

If you try googling com surrogate this is the first entry you come to & an excellent description: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/12/9413816.aspx

 

[cluberti]

If you're curious about what it is or what it's doing, you can use Process Explorer to take a look at it's command line once it starts, and which process started it (it's parent).
Process Explorer

 

[JamesJ]

I can't seem to find much in the Process Manager.
I'm more curious why it opens and closes every half hour or so.

 

[cluberti]

Well, to find out, you'll have to catch it in the act .

 

[Ztruker]

Most likely a scheduled task that then uses Com Surrogate (dllhost) to do something. Look at Task Scheduler and see what, if any, are set to run every 30 minutes?