disturbed Posted November 5, 2006 CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 Lately, last couple of months, every once in a while Helpsvc (service used for help and support on windows xp) starts itself up and has a huge memory leak - the service is DISABLED but somehow it starts while I am doing whatever and starts eating memory up - today the mem leak topped out 600MB I run xp sp1 - is anyone having a similar issue ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted November 5, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 and also just to add...when I see that helpsvc has started up - I go into services.msc and just to find that it has been set to automatic - so indeed, it is not a trojan pretending to be a service, its a service starting itself up (WIERD !) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic Posted November 5, 2006 CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 Upgrade to sp2,this should solve the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted November 5, 2006 Author CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 how can you be sure of that - upgrading is not always a solution - I have not been experiencing this problem before, it started all of a sudden - so I dont think that even microsoft is aware of this issue - i highly doubt sp2 would fix it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic Posted November 5, 2006 CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 Alright if you don't want to install Sp2 the try this,go to c:windowsinfpchealth.inf ,right click on the pchealth.inf file choose install. should fix the problem with out installing Sp2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ispgeek Posted November 5, 2006 CID Share Posted November 5, 2006 how can you be sure of that - upgrading is not always a solution - I have not been experiencing this problem before, it started all of a sudden - so I dont think that even microsoft is aware of this issue - i highly doubt sp2 would fix it While it may not fix your problem SP2 does resolve a ton of other problems not to mention keeping your current in the upgrade path which is critical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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