asghost.exe continuously taking 49% of CPU (twin core)

[whatforever]

Please dont waste our time on problems you dont know.

This **bleep** belongs to some hp service but itself is not a service.

So under win7, in taskmgr you cant jump from asghost.exe to any service.So which service we should  disable ?

[whatforever]

Thanks to 2rBear，but my fingerprint funciton dont funciton at all under win7x64 without hp ProtectTools Security Manager+Credential Manager.

And I just found  this problem may be related with the network firewall, but if it has happened, then even you turn off the firewall the problem remains. I dont know if restart system can resolve it , but it can be fixed by restarting all hp related servcies in services.msc.

In my services list it includes:

AuthenTec Fingerprint Service

HP ProtectTools Service

HP Quick Synchronization Service

HP Service

HP Software  Framework Service

[AlyThom999]

Yes, the reason I googled asghost.exe was because when I was loggin out yesterday, it said a programme had not closed down. It was asghost.exe and I wondered what it was for.