"Woody" wrote:
> In article <8EA70B08-D5F5-4F7D-959D-26E837F36...@microsoft.com>,
> D...@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> > "Woody" wrote:

> > > > I'm guessing that other people didn't notice it because they probably
> > > > shutdown the machine most of the time; either that, or that they are the
> > > > "common user" which doesn't have a clue on what's going on, and simply
> > > > reboots, and everything is back to normal....

> > > Speaking as one of these 'common users', a Software engineer building
> > > distributed network documentation systems, My tablet was last rebooted
> > > on tuesday, and has been used quite a lot in the 5 days since then. My
> > > tabtp is at 24M (admitadly too high) with 19 threads.

> > > I have never seen this problem that a small number of people are
> > > describing so I was wondering what combination of factors causes it.

> > Heh, hope you didn't get offended :D

> Been on usenet too long to get offended by anything!

> > Although you probably don't fit my definition of a "common user".

> I guess not!

> > What was your tcserver.exe status? on my machine it dwarfed tabtip.exe.

> tcserver was quite a way below tabtip.exe. At the time I looked I sorted
> by size and tabtip was the largest process. tcserver was quite a way up
> the list.

> > From what I can tell, certain applications cause the leak to exacerbate. I
> > think Firefox has a negative effect on tcserver.exe, since I've seen it
> > misbehaving in regards to ink input; for example - while hovering with the
> > pen over the address bar, I would get that popup button that allows me to
> > open the TabletPC input panel; however, this would only happen once, and
> > never again.

> I get the popup button which lets me open the panel reliably, but the
> panel goes away after one or two keypresses on the keyboard (it stays on
> the ink part though).

> > I've observed this behaviour long before I noticed the leak, and I knew that
> > there is a problem when it comes to Firefox and the "Advanced Text/Input
> > Services"; based on that knowledge I disabled these services (in the Firefox
> > shortcut), and apparently tcserver.exe's leakage seems to have slowed down.
> > Still, I wouldn't swear that this is a good workaround, until I tested it
> > some more.
> > In any case, they should still fix the the problem at the source.

> > What kind of applications are you using?

> At the time of writing I had firefox, acrobat reader, Agilix GoBinder,
> Paint.net, eudora, Yagol, MS Visual Studio.net and Excel open.
> Firefox, goBinder and eudora are mostly permanently running, then there
> is office, VS.net and others that come and go as required.

> --
> Woody
> Played Yagol for tabletPC yet?
> http://www.alienrat.com/games