walign program in WinPatrol scheduled tasks list

I am running Windows 98 SE and have Winpatrol 9.0 installed and running.

The Scheduled Tasks window in WinPatrol is showing a program named walign which it shows as having run on 3/5/05 at 11:00 PM and it is scheduled to run again on 4/2/05 at 9:00 AM.

The name WinPatrol shows is Tune-Up Application Start.

When I ask for more info the info window shows a heading of Tune-Up Application Start.job. For status this window shows: no local file found. The fields for Name, version, company, copyright arer all blank.

Does anyone know what walign is?

 

Walign.exe
This file comes with Windows 98 and is written to look for Microsoft Office during Setup. Once it finds the folder, it will call Winalign.dll to do the actual work and align those files.

Walign.exe automatically makes a log in your <windir> system directory. The file name is "WinAlign Report.txt" or winali~1.txt. It lists the number of files processed and name the files that were either aligned or if it failed it will list a reason if failed (For example, Already aligned.)

Tip: If you run Walign on a clean system that has nothing but Windows 98 installed Walign will not align anything as Windows 98 is already prealigned. But, Walign will add a task into Task Scheduler so that it will check your system twice a month to see if you have installed Microsoft Office. Once Walign successfully aligns Microsoft Office it will then remove itself from Task Scheduler.

Here is some more info from MS, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q191655/

Steve

 

Steve,

Thanks for the information.

It had me concerned because of the missing information in the Name, version, company, and copyright fields in WinPatrol. It's probably been running for 6 years on my PC and I only noticed it because I installed WinPatrol a week ago.

Thanks Again

John

 

Your welcome. I actually found it interesting reading, it's amazing how much work, thought and research go into the developemnt of an operating system like Windows.

Steve