weird proccess running only for 7 days? waitfor.exe

[Lee Li]

Now, just a day or two ago i went to check my prosesses and had 7 days running. I noticed something I'd never seen before. It seems to be sysWOW64 or some such that is supposed to be verified windows material. However, it then list the actual name as waitfor.exe in properties. My research indicated this was also something supposedly verified as microsoft, meant either for linking computers or bridging 64 bit and 32 bit software depending on which page/forums i looked at. in proccesses it has this huge name waitfor - wait/send a signal over a network (32 bit)

I heard they were going to stream textures in a17. Is this some part of that? Was there a partial update I missed? because in allthe time I have played, I have never seen such a thing in task manager before for 7 days or any other game. it only seems to run with 7 days runs. If I kill it, 7 days crashes maybe 10 seconds later.

I often check my proccesses to kill silly stuff. Well, recently I had a weird update to Steam, right after they released that aweful UI change. The intiial update went ok, but then they quickly released 1 or two fixes, and during one of those suddenly my 'webbbrwser' and friends list from inside steam refused to work. I used a work around to get the old friends list working. Nothing seemed to fix the ability to use the Steam store and 'web browser'. Eventually, i wrote new firewall permissions for steam and it worked. But that was after reloading Steam almost entirely. I did that trick where you delete most of your steam files and just reload it by clicking steam.exe. Since I was having problems with Steam, could this be the culprit?

 

[SylenThunder]

That isn't a game process.

No new feature being worked on in a17 would be in your current client.

Here's the Microsoft documentation on it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/waitfor

I could see it being used to batch sync active files from a PC to a cloud server, but it's rather a rudimentary way to do so.

 

[Lee Li]

doh

That isn't a game process.No new feature being worked on in a17 would be in your current client.

Here's the Microsoft documentation on it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/waitfor

I could see it being used to batch sync active files from a PC to a cloud server, but it's rather a rudimentary way to do so.

So no clue why this would be running, only for 7 days to die? It's not anything I am aware of as being a mod from the multiplayer server i play on, this runs even when I'm disconnected from playing just siting at the selection screen. I even verified all my 7 days files through steam, which made me reinstall the EAC but that was it. And waitfor still runs.

edit: I saw another post, completely unrelated but gave me the idea. I tried disabling EAC since, when i validated files through steam it for some reason forced me to repermit EAC to be loaded for 7 days. I know EAC is the MP security so i did without thinking about it. But turns out if I disable EAC, wqaitfor.exe doesnt run.

 

[Nunij]

It's also working for SMITE a 3rd person MOBA. And in the documentation I see it says it helps for the sync of two computers over a network. So that helps your friends when you host a server not lag out and get kicked out although that happens still.