What is msgsrv32?

[Felecha]

 

[Russ]

Taking a wild guess from the name, I'd say it's a 32 bit message server file. All kinds of stuff comes up on Google.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Felecha]

Actually the computer is my daughter's. So I came down to my own to send my question. Just now I went back up and rebooted again and it came up just fine, connected to the Internet just fine, no errors. Hmm ... I will let the sleeping pooch lie for now.

I did a Yahoo search myself and did find something that explained it some, I guess

Msgsrv32.exe is a program (Windows 32-bit
Message Server) that performs several background functions, including the following:
*
Load installable Windows drivers at startup and unload them at
shutdown.
*
Run the shell program (usually
Explorer.exe) and re-run the shell
if it fails to respond.
*
Mediate Plug and Play messages among various parts of the operating
system.
*
Coordinate automatic responses to Setup programs. This includes
checking whether a Setup program has improperly overwritten Windows files, and optionally
restoring the Windows versions of those files.
*
Display the initial logon dialog box if networking is enabled.
*
Play the system startup and shutdown sounds.

Not sure how exactly that applies to the Network Properties and its restart message when you clock OK, but it's plausible that it does, and whatever wasn't working now does.

 

[ktwebb]

Doh