| All comments about tfswctrl.exe: |
 Jon Dyson | Part of Sonic Solutions DVD/CD Suite & provides drive letter access to drive |
 | Drive Letter Access (DLA) - do NOT use in Win 2k3 Server |
 joecellphone0000@hotmail.com | tfswctrl causes many of my apps to give a "please insert correct DVD/CD to continue installation (or to start program)" when i AM inserting correct disc. See also: Link |
| User | Kann im Zusammenhang mit Nero Probleme verursachen - typische 'entweder oder' - Software |
 Don Catterson | tfswctrl.exe causes a Direct Acces Component crash on XP-Pro startup See also: Link |
| JM | Installed with Sonic Record Now! CD burning software (might be pre-installed on IBM thinkpad) See also: Link |
| Darlene | This is caused by the Veritas file 'tfswctrl.exe'. From the Windows desktop click on start- search Go to the ‘All Files or Folders’ option and type in “tfswctrl”. Once Windows has located the file, rename their file type suffix(e.g. tfswctrl.exe to tfswctrl.ex_ or tfswctrl.sys to tfswctrl.sy_). |
| Scott | Made by Veritas, came pre-installed on my IBM ThinkPad A31, this app frequently crashes when I "un-hibernate" the laptop |
| beltwayrider | It was installed on my Dell computer which includes Sonic CD writer software. DO NOT install Direct CD as well. The system will be unstable because of conflicts because both are loaded at startup. |
| Don Jensen | not much but is a pain when you want to restart or shutdown your computer. |
 J. Ponte | When I shutdown W2000 I get a message telling me that this app is 'not responding' |
| Dave | installed a Plextor PX-16A DVD Burner in my Dell 2400. Every time I insert a DVD to play, the computer "dumps" completely shuts down. When I turn off the tfswctrl, everything works fine. |
| John Sousa | This program is NOT-essential, but SHOULD NOT be terminated unless causing severe problems |
| Jarn McCloy | It has a unique payload of orbit byte twisters. It can be used to adapt write requests to network requests by a simple switch. |
| Dorothy | Get Direct Access Component error frequently when make referral to or often even when just load DVD disk in DVD rewriter drive. Can read from drive but can't write to it. |
| Tom | My 3.2 GHz computer frequently lapses into slow motion, processes everything at a snail's pace, Only solution is to reboot. While the machine is trying to shut down I get the message twfsctrl is not responding. |
 | I believe this changes the POP3 account to 127.0.0.1 in Outlook Express |
| Hanshi | XoftSpy claimed it was a Trojan by the name of "Trojan/CWS Combo" |
| Mike | Causes Direct Access Component crash on startup on my IBM ThinkPad |
| Ted Lyngmo | It often gives me the error message "Memory could not be written" when I reboot. |
| User | Bei meinem Dell PC vorinstalliert mit der Sonic RecordNow! OEM Software |
| A. Knutson | When logging off, a message states that it did not shutdown correctly. |
| Hotti | It was installed on my Dell computer which includes Sonic CD writer software |
| Niall Mc | its a sonic mydvd file, dont mind it |
| Matt Bowden | I had tfswctrl.exe crash when I was trying to restart my Windows XP computer. In my case this file is associated with Sonic RecordNow. |
| metro | its on my dell inspiron 600m, can i disable this without giving me problems?? |
| docrings | Pre-installed on new Dells |
| VstevieV | I could not burn DVDs using MyDVD; Sonic tech advised that if files direcd.exe, dragtocd.exe, tfswctrl.exe, incd.exe and or b'sclip.exe we running (check in Task Manager/Process) to terminate the process and try burning again. |
| Jesse | My computer was running slow so I restarted it and not it wont let me click on anything on the desktop and the drive letter access error report is the only thing that pops up. I can only click dont send. |
| Robert | I agree with several of the opinions above. It causes problems with my Dell - causes the whole system to slow or freeze. Disable it using MSCONFIG. |
| Animesh | It causes my 3 Ghz Pentium HT-4 based system to often freeze. I wish I could disable or get rid of it. Any solutions from anyone else? |
| Stevo | I think Nero installed it. Causes Direct Access Component crash on startup on my IBM ThinkPad. Also causes BSOD at shutdown. |
| Hate auto installs | Only what I have found on the web. I don't have a HP drive or Sonic My DVD programs. I'm not sure how it has been installed. |
| Stewart | This conflicts with Backup Pro (comes with Rev Drives) and causes a 2-3 minute hang when the system boots (after login). |
| Keith | Causes severe slowdown of computer. Uses up 100% of computer resources on my "new" dell laptop. |
| Stephanie | When logging off, a message appears, have to end process so logging off can continue |
| Paul | It will make certain dell gen computers not be able to Shutdown properly |
| Dan | Causes Windows XP Pro to hang on start and shutdown |
| wayne Meredith | Paul Collins is right |
| justice | When I shut down or restart my pc it says the program not responding |
| Janne | It crashes Windows totaly and i cant get pass it. |
| rmcgee | tfswctrl.exe is part of the DLA application that is pre-loaded on IBM machines. DLA is intended to provide drag/drop of files to a CD writer, but it is crap. tfswctrl caused blue screens with my new Plextor drive. Uninstalled DLA to get rid of tfswctrl, and everything is fine. |
| Joanne | makes shutting down the computor difficult - a message comes up and says that it is "not responding" |
| Keith Garner | does not shut down properly on my computer quite often |
| juan | Works for the DVD/CR-RW Combo drive |
| ppf | Allow access to a CD-RW or a DVD-RW like a standard hard disk |
| YoUr AlL cRaZy | not dangerous at all... |
| Dylan | Seems to come on Dells too, dosen't seem to really be a problem to let it run. |
| Kayton Knax | Why would it change the server in OExpress? possibly a virus infected that file, because there is no reason for it to. Your av software may change it to 127.0.0.1 also |
| goldawg | Seems to have come on my new Dell, causes problems when I plug in my external USB Plextor DVD burner - causes PC to lock up and I can only hard reboot. tfswctrl.exe won't shut down. when i loaded s/w that came with Plextor (Roxio 6), nothing worked at all. |
| | it shows an error on startup and i have no taskabar and the graphics are all screwed |
| Didrik | When something hangs up on the Inspiron9100 or Dell Workstation 220, this is usually found as the problem. |
| wes | Pinnacle says tfswctrl.exe is why my DVD's won't burn when using Studio9. But it doesn't go away when I try to kill the process, or the process tree. I also tried killing the process with killbox.exe and that didn't work either. Like other's, I also have a dell with sonic, which may be the instigator. |
| Juan | MS-config disable the bastard and it just wont do anymore trouble, you can live with winxp default tool, aso try to update since the one on my laptop works perfect (a pavillion dv4000) and my dads hangs(dell9300-but i disabled it), try to update, or just leave it disabled (BTW i have never missed a function like direct CD an i have been burning forever, just rigth clik and choose send to and it would do pretty much the sme and beeter and it comes from roxio) |
| Eric D | Terrible. Burn 2 CDs and it causes intermittent freezing. Only solution is restart comp. I'm using WinXP |
| Sandra Rowland | Causes problems when inserting CD to burn, using Sonic Record Now on my Thinkpad R50e. Program freezes, disk cannot be ejected. Only solution is to reset. |
| mkozlowski | does not terminiate at shutdown IBM computer |
| Dan Seaman | HP.com has an update, they say early ver. don't work w/ SP-2 See also: Link |
| Don Johnson | Installed with Sonic MyDVD. Hangs the machine to a crawl when watching DVD's. Won't terminate using Windows Task Manager. What a pain |
| ZeboBeeznurd | HP Printers occasionally install this service |
| Trying to get rid of this | Don't know nothing except get a pop up window on starting my computer about this file |
| Ben | Linked to some software not functioning properly on my XP. |
| Arni | Crashes Direct access component on startup on my thinkpad T41p |
| Matt | My network of 80+ Dell workstations came pre-installed with Sonic RecordNow have intermittent performance issues and slow log-off. The tfswctl.exe usually hangs when this happens. I'm going to take Roberts advice to disable it and see what happens |
| mike zahra | Causes my dell dimension 3100 with xp pro sp2 to not be able to shutdown properly. and mouse click function disabled. |
| Paul... | Used for Veritas removable backup to disk\Can Hang! |
| Jay Simpson | I found that while on dial up service, my computer was sending a high rate of data to the degree that I couldn't receive data. So I started eliminating processes thru Task Manager and when I killed this process, the outgoing stopped. By the time I had killed it, it had sent 13MB somewhere. Weird. |
| Matt | I watch my running processes and this one is new. No HP hardware other than a printer, and this allegedly has to do with CDR reading. |
| kim | I think I picked this up after loading files from a CD I burned on my parent's computer. I also have a ThinkPad, and I find all of the error messages annoying. |
| tictac | Causes Program is Not rsponding dialog box ech time I Shut down or restart XP |
| Dave Menconi | Doesn't shut down for me, either. The question is: other than uninstalling it, how can we get it to behave? |
| bon | It seemed to appear when I loaded a new program onto my new dell. It took two weeks to locate why my system was pretty much non-operational. I worked with tech support for two days and they didn't even identify the problem they just had me return the computer to factory settings where I then had to reload all of my programs...Pain in the butt. |
| Kim | Came preinstalled with Sonic RecordNow. Causes XP Pro to crash regularly. Sonic tells you to disable this on startup but doesn't tell you that you'll lose readability See also: Link |
| Ty | It came with CD/DVD write software on my Dell. It hasn't caused me any problems... yet. |
| EJW - Sri Lanka | If I would close the cover of my laptop (WinXP-Pro), it would hybernate. When I restart, it reports an error because I had disconnected my USB Hard Drive (external) AFTER the hybernation. It is to do with interfacing the drive letter or drives. |
| mdwebneck | Can't say for sure that HP created it because I know XP has a lot of built in drivers these days, but it is there to accomodate PCs with installed CDburners. If anyone is having troubles with it , I would reinstall their bundled CDburning software or look for a recent software patch - tho' I found this comment on hp site Early versions of DLA software are not compatible with Windows XP SP2. The DLA software must be updated to a later version to successfully eliminate this error. The link below contains a revision of DLA software tested to work with Windows XP SP2. See also: Link |
| Julio Mendez | Come's with IBM Thinkpad, can't open CD tray when activted |
| Dan | doesn't run always but if, then it gets my pc to freece often |
| shao | 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 |
| | Came after I tried to run WIndows Greetings before inserting the disk (which I do have) |
| angela | cannot get access to an HP Pavilion 700 with XP Pro, had to disable with msconfig after finding this site.... |
| Lino | Came with Sonic for me. Hangs XP when coming out of standby. Very annoying! |
| Mediarocker - IT Administrator | 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. |
| Travis | tfswctrl.exe will reenable DLA, even if you disabled it. |
| Rob Riddle | 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. |
| | 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.. |
| SAH | 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. |
| yonimon | comes with dell for sonic |
| Bryan | 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. |
| Very Annoyed, TJRuLeZ | 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. |
| Mike | It showed up in the event logs on a user's machine that would not shut down properly |
| Jerry near St. Louis | 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. |
| tom | came installed in my IBM thinkpad. causes the laptop to crash when resuming after sleep. |
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