Re: cisvc.exe

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 10/19/02 

From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:40:44 +0200

Keith Powell wrote:

> Similar to several messages in this topic windows XP
> takes forever to start up and runs very slowly. I am
> rather a computer novice, but when I pull up the task
> menu I see that cisvc.exe is pulling out 70-80 percent of
> my active memory much of the time. When I disable this
> function the system returns to its advertised lightening
> speed. However, this is not a very satisfactory solution
> and I am concerned about system instability. Any help or
> suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> PS: I suspected virus contamination, but rerunning the
> latest virus scans produced nothing. Thanks and please
> respond to the above e-mail address. Keith Powell

Hi

cisvc.exe is the indexing service (no virus or worm). See here for more details:

From: Mark Evans (a@b.co)
Subject: Tuning Content Indexing service (cisvc.exe)
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Date: 2002-09-02 11:24:14 PST
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=8f9242a3b76d4819

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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI
Porsgrunn Norway
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