what is tfswctrl.exe?

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From: Tom Seeley (tomseeley_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:00:22 -0700

I'm running Win XP home, MSIE 6.0, Outlook Express 6.0.
Norton System Works 2004, including Antivirus and
Internet Security (my firewall). I've disabled the XP
firewall in favor of the Norton one, for other reasons,
and I'm not willing to reverse that decision if I don't
have to.

Occasionally (often enough that it &())(*& me off!) after
I've minimized OE, and then try to open and run MSIE, it
won't open. The whole machine locks up completely. [I
thought XP wasn't supposed to do that any more!] The
only way to undo it is to use the power button! Ctrl-Alt-
Del and closing individual tasks that aren't running,
and/or clicking on Shut Down does not do the job.

Every time this happens, I get a message/error window
saying a program called tfswctrl.exe isn't responding.
It offers to let me click "close now" but if I do, that
also has zero effect! [Back to the power button...]

This is becoming a royal PITA.

Can anyone tell me what that program is? Why am I having
this trouble?

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