Hi,

I've noticed a massive slow down in my system lately, in particular while playing an online game (Counter Strike Source...great game).

When I checked a few things out, I have noticed that the are 9 instances of OBE*.exe (OBE32.exe, OBEE.exe, OBEMail.exe x 4 & OBEServ.exe x 3), services running in the background, each of an average of 43,000K in memory usage (& while writing this they have increased to an average of 48,000K).

I quite often see what services are running in the background & have never noticed these before. I've checked an alternative machine I have running XP & they are not on there either.

I've done some looking around & believe that they are something to do with Outlook, but I don't have Outlook installed as I use Thunderbird for emails.

I've tried ending the processes, but they just keep coming back immediately. I've looked in Add/Remove Programs, but Outlook is not listed there. I've run the "services.msc" command from the run menu, but none of these OBE services are listed. :eek:

Is there someone out there that might know how to stop these from running?

I would appreciate any help I can get...thanks :o

Are the OBE*.exe programs running when you play counterstrike?

Have you done a search for OBE*.exe from the search to see where the exe is being stored?

Just some ideas....

Hi Gnome,

Yes, they are running in the background while playing CSS, but I know for a fact they have nothing to do with the game because they have only appeared in the last week or two...& slowing the game down dramatically. Last night was probably the worst it's been.

Good thinking regarding the search, I tried it & the results are below.

OBEServ.exe - C:\Windows
OBEMail.exe - C:\Program Files\Outlook Express
OBEE.exe - C:\Windows\System32
OBE32.exe - C:\Windows\System

I still can't find a way of stopping them running in the background though...

While I'm typing this I just though of booting to safe mode & seeing if I can use CleanSweep to uninstall the *.exe files...yeh I'll give that a go & post the result.

Thanks very much for the reply & ideas.
:cheesy:

Gnome...your a legend.

Got there in a round about way, but I got there.

Couldn't get Cleansweep to work in safe mode, so I just moved the offending files to another drive & rebooted normally. The files weren't running when the system rebooted so I ran a registry fix to delete the items from the registry.

I've rebooted again & no sign of them in the running processes & the system seems to be working fine (touch wood)......your a genius.

The test will be playing CSS to see how it runs, but thanks very much anyway for the ideas.

Cheers

Just trying to run ideas off you. Glad something worked out