cidaemon.exe problem

[tokey22]

hey

i'm having a problem with XP pro. i found that cidaemon.exe eats up all my ram. when i monitor the file with task manager, the amount of ram is uses keeps going higher and higher until i have no ram left.

does anyone know why this is happening? and how i can stop this from happening?

thanks!!

 

[tokey22]

can anyone help plz?

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix my problem, i would appreciate it a lot!

Thanks!!

 

[xsivforce]

Are you using IIS?

 

[tokey22]

🙁

No i'm not using IIS.

 

[Qumahlin]

Turn off the your HD indexing service, I believe that should cure the problem.

goto my comp, right click drive, goto props, and make sure the allow drive to be indexed box is NOT checked.

 

[tokey22]

Thanks for your suggestion. But if i disable indexing service won't it slow down my system ?

I never had this problem b4. it just started happening this afternoon. Indexing service was always on.

 

[tokey22]

I did as you suggested but i'm still having the problem.

🙁 any other suggestions?

 

[xsivforce]

Did it just start doing this recently?

 

[tokey22]

Yes, it just started doing it this afternoon. I have never had a problem like this even with indexing service on.

It seems to happen after the computer has been on for a little while (ie: 10-20mins)

 

[xsivforce]

Have you tried a system restore?

 

[Qumahlin]

Make sure the indexing service is turned off completely. go into your administrative tools, services and change indexing service to disable, be sure to click stop first if it's listed as running. Then kill both the cid processes.