Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 25 21:52:26 CST 2013
Keep us posted on your success as you seem to be going in the right direction. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:59 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it? I have a Toshiba notebook with Windows 8 that I'm attempting to configure to use some old serial port firemen's equipment testing station equipment with <shakes head> this ain't going well. Just switched over to it and yes it has the synaptic touch pad app running: .2 for the "helper" module and 1.2 for the "enhancement" module. I tried to downgrade this notebook to Windows 7 pro and the MB's embedded security wouldn't allow it. I turned that off in the BIOS but Windows 7 still wouldn't go past the starting screen so I couldn't even get to the install options. Next I will try VirtualBox with an XP machine. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:42 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it? I just did some more testing and when initially loaded, it "only" uses about 100MB - so there would appear to be a serious memory leak in it (I haven't rebooted the laptop for several days at least). I think I'll leave it running for now and see what it does over time. -- Stuart On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:55, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > Unbelievable!!! I remember running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on just a mere 8 megabytes (yes, megabytes!) and these days software developers are incapable of writing touchpad extensions software that fits under 1.3 gigabytes of RAM. > > http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/templates/14288.jpg > > - Hans > > > > On 2013-01-25, at 4:47 PM, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > > > 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. 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