Post by Noel on Oct 15, 2016 11:50:07 GMT -6
If you have had a recent Skype update you may have noticed a Skype update has brought in a new DCOM process that didn't exist before:
SkypeBrowserHost.exe
According to Microsoft, in community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-client/What-is-the-skypebrowserhost-that-just-appeared/td-p/4470457, this component is described (by a Skype forum admin) as:
So basically both the Skype.exe and the Skype Browser Host process together now make up the Skype application functionality. Can you share why you want this seperate process to be stopped? Is it because you think performance is affected (which it shouldn't at all)? Also the combined memory footprint should be very similar.
Not everyone is getting this "experiment" apparently. Some with 7.28.80.101 still have only Skype.exe running. Lucky them.
What I have found prevents SkypeBrowserHost.exe from running is to simply rescind execute permissions for all users/groups from SkypeBrowserHost.exe.
However, if you don't take one additional step, blocking SkypeBrowserHost will then flood your System Event Log with error 10000 messages. Literally several per second! My entire System event log has been filled, causing all the history of events on my machine (which had gone back all the way to 2013 when I installed it) to be lost. Thanks Microsoft, for nothing.
The workaround for the event 10000 flood is to remove the Wow6432Node class ID key. This stops the repeating event 10000 messages, as apparently when Microsoft doesn't find the key they don't even try to start the DCOM server.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3FCB7074-EC9E-4AAF-9BE3-C0E356942366}]
To reverse the above deletion, add this:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3FCB7074-EC9E-4AAF-9BE3-C0E356942366}]
@="BrowserControl Class"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3FCB7074-EC9E-4AAF-9BE3-C0E356942366}\LocalServer32]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Skype\\Browser\\SkypeBrowserHost.exe\""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3FCB7074-EC9E-4AAF-9BE3-C0E356942366}\TypeLib]
@="{6F1F1B02-1FB0-428A-8525-9BD9E420A0D8}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{3FCB7074-EC9E-4AAF-9BE3-C0E356942366}\Version]
@="1.0"
Microsoft, I care deeply about what's running and why on my systems. I don't appreciate your experimenting on me and causing new processes to run without my permission. Perhaps you would like me to do the same to you one day?
It's possible that under some conditions it will be necessary for SkypeBrowserHost to run. I don't find it necessary for it to automatically log in, and in fact it sounds like disabling it turns off parts I'd really rather not have running.
But bear in mind I have only experimented for a short time, and you may have to undo these steps if you find Skype stops doing some things you want it to do.
Do these things at your own risk, and only if you're confident you can undo them!
-Noel