I was wondering what's going on in my Vista. The laptop felt slower than usual. Ok, Vista is always slow but this time it was barely crawling. I launched the Task Manager and noticed that a program program called TrustedInstaller.exe was using 88% of my precious CPU-cycles. The speed-o-meter was stuck at 88%. And it stayed there. What the heck? The Task Manager didn't refresh automatically. Update speed was set to normal but still no updating. It was time to ask Google some questions. And like always, Google knows everything. Change the update speed to something else corrected this issue. I felt really stupid. I should have tried that without any help from Google. Half of the problem solved.
But what is TrustedInstaller.exe. I've never heard of it or seen a process like that. Even the name was suggesting that it is something you shouldn't trust at all. Maybe an evil Russian trojan-downloader or something. Certainly nothing legitimate. The process starts randomly even if I'm not installing anything. It was time to call Google again. I found out that is a part of something called "Windows Module Installer". I didn't find good description of it so I won't even try to explain here what it is or what it is doing. It seems, that among other things it tries to find solutions for unsolved problems and crashes.
Long story short , I did the following :
Start > Control Panel > Classic View > Problem Reports and Solutions > Clear Solution and Problem History > Close the control panel
Problem solved. The process is still there but now it's not bugging me anymore.
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