asbak.exe using large amounts of memory

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Scott Schneider - 29 Nov 2004 14:03 GMT

I am working on a customer's XP SP2 PC. When the PC boots the program
asbak.exe starts eating up memory. Eventually the vmm mangaer comes on
stating that resources are low and it automatically adjusts. After about
5:00 minutes the program terminates successfully and the memory is returned
to the pool.
If I do a search on the C drive I can't find the program asbak.exe yet it
runs upon each boot up.

Can someone tell me what this program is used for and is there a way to tame
it so it will not use up all available memory?

Cheers

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Alex Levi - 29 Nov 2004 14:53 GMT

If you'd like to remove this program from starting at startup, just delete it
from the startup folder.

If it's not in the startup folder, run RegEdit.exe and browse to these 2
locations:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
In the right panel delete the row that points to that file.

If you can't find this file anyware, try to start manually every program
that exist in the startup folder and in those 2 location in the registry
untill you could see it consuming the memory in the task maneger. And after
you find this program, just remove it.

Note that you should backup those 2 keys in the registry by using the export
feature before modifing it, just in case.

> I am working on a customer's XP SP2 PC. When the PC boots the program
> asbak.exe starts eating up memory. Eventually the vmm mangaer comes on
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>
> Cheers

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