In the last few weeks, I've noticed a few issues. I have several firewalls/virus, worm, etc fighters, and so forth installed. I have EZ Firewall (came with my internet). I also have something called "spybot, search & destroy".

Anyway, lately sometimes when I open a web window, it will make multiple copies of itself (up to 70+ at one point in a few seconds) until I Ctrl-Alt-Del and "end tasked". This doesn't happen often though. Also, some popups have started back (I have several "blockers" supposedly).

Anyway, a few days ago, my computer started freezing on websites (not the same one each time, no common bond). The computer wouldn't even respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del sometimes.

The one common thread we've seen is that when we're shutting down, a box says "Cannot close hpcmpmgr.exe, closing end task could cause loss of info" or something like that. This has never shown in the Task Mgr window, and I have no clue what it is. It hasn't always been on there either.

Any clues? Thanks in advance for your help.

hpcmpmgr.exe makes calls to HP Servers.

So, I'm guessing that's an ok or maybe even a good thing? This file won't crash my computer?

Thanks for your quick response!

no it will not crash your pc , unless you have no HP