-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Sat, 31 Dec 2005, @ @ at 23:20:21 -0500, when Robert D. wrote:
> DDhelp.exe and Stimon.exe are always started when TB runs. Is this normal? > In the past, I have traced a few lock-ups to times when DDHelp was > loaded. I realise it doesn't use any ticks, usually, but still, if I > killed it, the WinME sys ran. If I had problems with tremendous > slowdowns, I could also see DDHelp.exe was loaded. > May not even be relevant. But I thought I would mention it and see if > anyone else had experiences. Informations on various files/processes (from various aspects) can be found pretty easily simply by typing in file/process name into Google's machine. I use this "strategy" often instead to search without great success Winblows' Help system and similar. Here are some of such informations: <http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/index.html> <http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/ddhelp/> Here, also, I didn't notice DDHelp.exe running in correlation with TBat, but again my SE is not "classical", "out of box" system but revamped by Micro Lite technology (thus significantly modified and reassembled), and my TB version is 2.12.00. Basically, ddhelp.exe is a core component of Direct3D, "in charge" of advanced functions of audio and video hardware. The very same Micro Lite technology (www.98lite.net) can be used for "putting in order" Windows MEe/Baa too. Result is, at least here with my variant of SE, exceptionally fast system which doesn't crash (literally!). I switch to XP(ee) only when I want to play games, until I find some way/time to re{vamp|arrange} this OS too, enough decently (it's much harder case, since IE[6] integration into OS, like hordes of bedbugs, looks sometimes hopeless, and is main reason of OS instability/mess, thus "interacting" with not only TB but with many other applications as well). Explanations for stimon.exe are given by Ludovic already. - -- Mica PGP keys nestled at: http://bardo.port5.com/pgpkeys/ [Earth LOG: 487 day(s) since v3.0 unleashing] OSs: Windows 98 SE Micro Lite Professional IVa Enterprise Millennium Windows XP(ee) Micro Lite Professional 1.3, and, for TB sometimes, Gentoo and Vector Linuxes via Wine... ~~~ For personal mail please use my address as it is *exactly* given in my "From|Reply To" field(s). ~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEVAwUBQ7fiy7SpHvHEUtv8AQP7Mwf/YmoubOj48fAi5Of1/GwgRJsX/u/M6pTA WL04gIquzcXd10fHtIxvSHJo030YQ+Wm1LMpjlcvklEgIg805XDUyP6ZmuTkEm8q IPM7L9CvqDTMXUgHD5T4xmnQFMbdvn/kQoeC9bPVWbqsmNMq7jEfSP1k40F0lvz5 Rm2lR7rZ/qh04tyRLMPLkh/FEUY5IpBMvAM5VpxgyBQcCsQFisWDYvj07U4d3Gvk wlazZBVPpJWb5gaVfNpCghkqYPEaYywRUW9gJegTdfd5PwOmZRqUzVwK7GXEOmF4 S2PwRB0fwzejML4in/yGktPnZdtILHIZt1+Lm2kj4jNJx1/vY8OI7A== =wvxu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
