Craig Nicholson

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At last the mysterious svchost.exe memory leak is fixed
Its not often that my work PC (running Windows XP service pack 2) starts to misbehave, but recently I've noticed that when I unlock my workstation in the morning its very sluggish and its been swapping out to disk a lot lately. I thought it was just Internet Explorer 7.0 freaking out about being open with a tab open to GMail - I've noticed that this causes a memory leak under Windows Vista. So I decided to investigate this further yesterday and found the culprit to be a little process known...