How to remove tfswctrl error

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tfswctrl.exe file information

The process Drive Letter Access Component or Direct Access Component belongs to the software Sonic DLA or tfswctrl.exe or IBM DLA or HP DLA or Stomp DLA or Roxio DLA or VERITAS DLA or Drive Letter Access Component or Roxio UDF Reader or tfswctrl.exe by Sonic Solutions (www.sonic.com) or VERITAS Software, Inc (www.veritas.com) or HP (www.hp.com) or IBM Corporation (www.ibm.com).

Description: File tfswctrl.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows\System32 or sometimes in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" or in a subfolder of C:\ (typically C:\WINDOWS\system32\dla\). Known file sizes on Windows XP are 127035 bytes (39% of all occurrence), 122939 bytes, 122941 bytes, 114741 bytes, 122933 bytes, 106549 bytes, 102455 bytes, 106551 bytes, 127037 bytes, 118843 bytes, 32821 bytes, 118837 bytes, 102453 bytes, 114742 bytes, 28176 bytes, 131131 bytes, 16897 bytes, 37451 bytes, 37822 bytes, 122880 bytes, 37473 bytes, 38924 bytes, 106496 bytes, 159797 bytes, 37388 bytes, 27660 bytes, 23564 bytes, 24076 bytes, 497664 bytes, 24588 bytes.
There is no description of the program. File tfswctrl.exe is not a Windows core file. The program has no visible window. Program is loaded during the Windows boot process (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, C:\Windows\system.ini, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce, , HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, , -, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce). You can uninstall this program in the control panel. Therefore the technical security rating is 49% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

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External information from Paul Collins:

• "tfswctrl" must run at start up. Drive letter access to HP's and Veritas' version of DirectCD. Does the same thing as DirectCD. From HP - "This is a needed file as it controles the readability of the Combo drives. Without this file loading the end user will be able to burn CD's but wont be able to read them. The drive itself will be able to read store bought master Cd's without the file but not burnt ones"

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as tfswctrl.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the tfswctrl.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

Links: tfswctrl.exe, tfswctrl.exe

came installed in my IBM thinkpad. causes the laptop to crash when resuming after sleep.
  tom  

According to Process Explorer the file comes from Sonic Solutions on my Dell 2400. It does the second most I/O hard drive writes. It's second only to Google Desktop Index which I would expect to do a lot of reads and writes. It has to be causing some performance hits.
  Jerry near St. Louis  

It showed up in the event logs on a user's machine that would not shut down properly
  Mike  

I have had quite a few issues with this program. Turns out, when I installed a non-full version of Nero it started killing my burnt CD's. This burner is the top of the line, double layer DVD's and everything, and even older computer burned everything perfectly. I would lose 2-3 CD's out of 50-60, not that bad. However, when I tried to boot Nero Speed Test, and other programs, and they crashed, I knew something was wrong. I uninstalled Nero and tried Roxio. It wouldn't burn at all now. I killed it in msconfig and everything burns, and no crashes.
  Very Annoyed, TJRuLeZ  

It hungs the writing application during a burning session causing the disc to eventually fail, then hangs the pc... have to reset. Ashampoo terminate process on startup.. seems to work.
  Bryan  

comes with dell for sonic
  yonimon  

It causes problem with XP Pro, difficult to read disk cut using DLA and interfers with reading disks and causing the computer to hang so that nothing works and sometimes when trying different things to un-hang your computer you end up with the blue screen of death. But it does not appear to cause any permanent damage. It is any to uninstall using the software installer wizard. Security rating is more like a pain in the bum.
  SAH  

Can be several Problems .. This is part of a VERITAS program in "HP" "RecordNow". Veritas has since be aquired by Symantec, you may know them as Norton, .. Soooo, I guess that means U R S.O.L..
   

Not dangerous unless infected by a virus just like any other process could be. However certain conflicts with this process can cause system errors and prevent some programs from performing normally. I removed the IBM DLA software and that solved the problem.
  Rob Riddle  

tfswctrl.exe will reenable DLA, even if you disabled it.
  Travis  

tfswctrl.exe is an essential process for HP's packet writing software which burns data to CD's using Microsoft Windows explorer. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
  Mediarocker - IT Administrator  

Came with Sonic for me. Hangs XP when coming out of standby. Very annoying!
  Lino  

cannot get access to an HP Pavilion 700 with XP Pro, had to disable with msconfig after finding this site....
  angela  

Came after I tried to run WIndows Greetings before inserting the disk (which I do have)
   

Came with my new Dell, took 90% of performance from my notebook and caused to crash. It has activated only then I put my laptop to standby and wanted to return back. don't know why? disable it on startup or delete Sonic burning as it came with this program
  shao  

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