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Windows XP SP2 computer has a RAM drain I cannot plug!

Nov 28, 2004 8:28AM PST

While trying to diagnose a problem on my nephew's laptop, I came across a process running (CTRL-ALT-DEL, then processes tab) called ipplay.exe. This process continually saps more and more RAM, until it drops the 256 MB RAM on the machine down to 3 or 4 MB (granted, other processes are eating up SOME, but this thing's consumption just keeps going up and up and up until the machine is paralyzed. I have killed this process, have deleted the file, and have seen it rise like a phoenix to mess things up again.

Where did this file come from? What permanently gets rid of it?

The computer is an older HP laptop with a 1 GB processor, 256 MB RAM. Particulars past this not presently available, as the machine has headed back (listless) with him to college. I DO have a HijackThis scan printout we were able to run while the RAM was hovering in the 120 MB range (we were monitoring it with MemTurbo).

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Frankly MEMTURBO is for DOS days.
Nov 28, 2004 8:34AM PST

1. Why run iplay?

If you can't identify it, disable it and move on.

2. Why memturbo?

I'm deadly serious. With each version of Windows, the need is reduced. I will not debate this but will reference the memory articles at http://www.aumha.org/articles.htm

Why I pan memturbo is I see it all the time with people and slow machines. On XP I get the opposite of what's supposed to happen. Less speed but more "free RAM".

Bob

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How to remove IPPLAY.
Nov 28, 2004 8:35AM PST