[needhelpnow99]

I am still struggling with the RASMAN on my computer. To find if it is in your registry, go to START/Run and type in "REGEDIT" without the quote marks and click on OK. At the top, under "edit" select "find" and search on RASMAN, userinit.exe (only one of these is for you to log on the computer, the rest may be associated with RASMAN), LEGACY which is an alias for RASMAN on my computer. This is fully integrated into my operating system, I believe that there are upwards of 1,000 entries associated with RASMAN on my computer. I'm trying to get my computer manufacturer, HP, to address the issue, but have not had any response from them yet.

Never change anything in regedit without professional advice.

I've had some luck with bringing up the task manager (hit CTL/ALT/DEL at the same time) immediately after bringing the computer up, and watch the Processes tab. If you see userinit.exe or alg.exe, both components of RASMAN, hit end process immediately.

[farstrider2001]

i found alg.exe(Application Layer Gateway Service. Description:Provides support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection Sharing) in task man service tab but i found userinit.exe in Win. Vista ver. windows defender software explorer which is mostly a tricked out ms config

heres what it says about it

Start Up listing

File Name: userinit.exe
Display Name: Microsoft Userinit Logon Application
Description: Userinit Logon Application
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Digitally Signed By: Microsoft Windows Verification PCA
File Type: Application
File Path: C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe
File Size: 25088
File Version: 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Date Installed: 26/03/2008 8:56:51 PM
Startup Type: Registry: Local Machine
Location: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon\userinit
Classification: Permitted
Ships with Operating System: Yes
SpyNet Voting: Not applicable

& alg doesnt appear there though but probably would with SYSINTERNALS tool

[needhelpnow99]

I looked in Windows to try to find some way to find the icon for the rasman connection and could find nothing like the "display hidden folders" in the folders area of the Control Panal, so I went into regedit and searched on "hide". Apparently there is an option to hide icons, so you can't see them. It appears to me that about a dozen icons are being hidden on my computer. I then went back to Windows and did a search on "Icon" and found that I have both broadband icons and satellite icons on my computer. This is strange because I have never had either kind of a connection, and they were all downloaded a few months to several years after I got the computer. Microsoft swears that RASMAN is Microsoft software, but when I searched on it a year ago, they had nothing in their knowledgebase about it or alg.exe.

[farstrider2001]

well my vista desktop doesnt show ras async adapter anymore