sysfader.exe - anyone any ideas what it does?

[Zonewalker]

evening all... just recently for no apprent reason I keep getting errors on my WinXP box with a process called sysfader.exe... as soon as this error occurs the CPU usage goes to 100% and the entire system freezes. Sometimes (about 1 time out of 10) I'm able to kill everything (including explorer.exe.) and get some semblance of working GUI back - most other times its a case of having to hit the reset button.

A search on google reveals very little to nothing about this process - other than it *might* have something to do with bluring/transparency effects (I'm not sure because my german is not that good). On this small hope I have turned off the transparency feature on the Nvidia (Geforce 2 Ti) graphics card - incidentally the transparency feature has never caused problems before, it only started happening last night .

However does anyone have any further info on this sysfader.exe process??

Cheers all

Z

[lumpyporridge]

sysfader makes the menus fade , you should be able to turn it off (display properties or something like that). Which may help

[Zonewalker]

cheers for the confirmation lumpyporridge.... as I said earlier I have already turned off the property.... seems to have done the job (crossed fingers). Incidentally do you have a link for further info cos I couldn't find a huge amount. (about 6 hits on google)

Any ideas why the computer which has been running with sysfader enabled for at least the last 8 months with no problems has suddenly developed the glitch??

Cheers

Z