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June 9, 2005
Iomega Application Services
Yesterday, listening to a CD via my external USB Iomega Super DVD on iTunes in Windows XP SP2, my computer was sluggish to a point of appearing to hang.
My previous laptop, regardless of whether I was actually using the Super DVD, started misbehaving after I installed the software that came with the Super DVD. Sometimes I literally couldn't kill applications, and I think other applications would never fully start (that is, show up in the process table, but never become visible). I wasn't sure, but I believe it only started acting weird after the first time I went into and came out of hibernation (so things were clean if I used the computer from a fresh start or restart).
Getting back to yesterday, when I looked at the task manager's list of processes, appservices.exe was hogging all the CPU. Killing it fixed the problem. But, what is the "real" solution?
I'm hoping the Iomega Application Services patch will solve it as it appeared to remedy the other issue I mention above. I'm creating this "nerd note" hoping that a search engine in the future might find it, saving some other victim of wayward application services from having to poke around as much as I did. (Also, when I went to look for the link on Iomega's support site yesterday, they don't seem to make it easy to locate. Luckily I had save the link from my last bad experience.)
Lest it sound otherwise, the Super DVD is great. This XP service is an add-on required by some of the Iomega software (e.g. Hotburn Pro).
Posted by alan at June 9, 2005 8:30 AM
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