Ive got an interesting problem i hope someone knows the answer too..
2 weeks ago i noticed a file called helpsvc.exe causing my computer to slow and take up over 100mb of memory and rising. I found a fix by re-insalling it's inf file. A few days ago it cropped again i just end tasked it for the time being.
Now today things are getting messy, when im using "explorer.exe" to access my files i would ,say right click on one, and then explorer would spike using 200mb memory then back down and i find that in the performance tab of windows taskmanger i only have 3mb from my 512mb ram available and all 700mb of my pagefile is used up and as you may imagine causes a touch of slow down. Ive ran scandisk and avg free antivirus and they came up with nowt. When i endtask eplorer the gui disappears but the program is still running when i restart explorer it opens another instance of explorer. I searched on google groups and it appears that other's have had this problem but there were no answers, peoples setups varied alot so im pretty sure this a software problem, oh yeah im using XP home sp1. This install has been there for about a year i run regular scans and maintenance progs.