Please help: Possible memory leak ??

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Andy

I have been having a problem lately with WinXP Pro. I think it seems to get
worse the longer the PC is on. What happens is if i open too many explorer
windows (internet) weird things start to happen. Right click no longer
works, windows won't close etc, when i do manage to close a couple of
windows everything seems OK.

I'm talking about when 4 or 5 windows are open here (not that many really
!). Sometimes .exe files won't run until i kill a few windows (or kill a few
items from the task manager).

One thing i have noticed is that when i right click on the taskbar of an
open window, i get lots of 'nview extensions' listed on the dropdown,
sometimes as many as 30, even though only a couple of windows are open.

Maybe if i try to kill nvidia nview, but how do i do this and will i crash
windows by doing it.

Somtimes i get the crash dialog box and when i click on 'more info' then the
problem is to do with nview.dll.

What is happening here ?????

Cheers for any help.

Andy

WinXPPro, 640RAM, Athlon 1.81GHz, 80gb HD.
 
Andy,

I have vague recollections of others posting problems related to nVidia
drivers. I personally have found that the "new" driver provided on the
Microsoft update site crashed the machine here that uses a nVidia card.
I didn't pursue solving the problem other than rolling back to the
older version that worked and made a mental note never to take this update.

Search this ng for more details, or check directly at nVidia for newest
info. Maybe they've got a better driver now for your card.
 
The NVIDIA update driver offered by MS wrecked many peoples machines,
including mine. I went to NVIDIA's web-site and downloaded their drivers,
they work fine. My suggestion is; always get updated drivers from the
hardware Mfg., not MS.

IMHO JAX
 
Cheers Jax !


JAX said:
The NVIDIA update driver offered by MS wrecked many peoples machines,
including mine. I went to NVIDIA's web-site and downloaded their drivers,
they work fine. My suggestion is; always get updated drivers from the
hardware Mfg., not MS.

IMHO JAX

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