[dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?

Out of interest, I just ran ProcExp on my laptop.  I found that the Synaptecs Touchpad 
Extensions was using 1.3GB of RAM :-(

I stopped the process, recovered 1.3GB of free RAM and the touchpad still works fine (I thnk 
the only thing it did was make the touchpad "mulit-touch" and makes the serrrated line on the 
right hand side of the touchpad emulate the scroll wheel.  Neither of   which I  use in 
practice.)

So I used Sysinternals Autoruns to disable loading it at startup.


-- 
Stuart

On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:38, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> How nice that the DOS commands I used 30 years ago are still under that
> sophisticated GUI. Now that's software with LEGS! :) 
> 
> But not too informative - no RAM size so I cant tie it to what I'm seeing in
> the task manager.
> 
> I'll try What's Running...well that just tells me that all the svchost.exe
> belong to MS Windows Operating System.
> 
> Well, I don't have the big svchost problem at the moment. And it's Miller
> Time. :)
> 
> R
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:31 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?
> 
> Rocky,
> 
> Try typing tasklist /svc in a dos prompt, that may help.
> 
> In Windows 8 you can click on the drop down in front of the svchost, and I
> think the freeware 'what's running' will show you as well
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rocky Smolin
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:55 PM
> To: 'Off Topic' ; List
> Subject: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?
> 
> Looking at my task manager I have a svchost.exe process that's taking 1.0
> -1.3 GB RAM Any way to find out what it is?
> 
> There's a bunch of the svchost.exe processes but smaller - 13 of them
> ranging from 2 to 40 MB in size.  Who are they?
> 
> I just terminated the big one.  Everything seems OK so far.
> 
> Rocky
> 
> 
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