'Unlock' process does not show up in process list

September 14, 2008

Windows XP Media Center edition.

In the task bar where active tasks (i.e. firefox) sit when they are

running, there is a process/task called "unlock".

The only options available are minimize and close.

I took a tasklist /v from the command line and saved it to

a text file and started looking at the active processes. I didn't

see anything odd, the usual svchost etc.

So I closed the "unlock" and took another tasklist -v

To my surprise, there was no difference in size between the

before an after images.

I did some googling but couldn't find anything about "unlock"

that looked specific enough to tell me what' going on.

I'm not at that computer now, but I could get the two snapshots

if anyone thinks they can figure this out from them.

The "unlock" isn't causing any problems, its just weird to see this

thing sitting there doing nothing. It may be a leftover from a

screensaver but that doesn't explain (to me) why closing it

would not change the size of the process list.

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