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What is DDHELP.EXE
Name: Dragon Date: October 6, 2001 at 19:03:36 Pacific
Comment:
I have DDHELP.exe running on my Win98 PC in Realtime. I would like to know what is the main purpose of DDHELP.exe and does it need to be running in REALTIME.
Name: bone Date: October 6, 2001 at 19:08:24 Pacific
Reply:
it is part of DirectX, and yes you want it running in realtime.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dragon Date: October 6, 2001 at 19:20:06 Pacific
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But isnt it supposed to terminate once you have stopped using Direct X (Like for example I have just finished playing a game. I exit out of the game entirly ) now should DDHELP.exe Terminate as well ? Why does it need to still be running. When I load into Windows it is not loaded up in the Services. So why doesn't it get released after I stop playing a game.
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Response Number 3
Name: cam Date: October 6, 2001 at 19:45:08 Pacific
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I think ddhelp.exe is part of the Windows 'Help' facility. I don't think it has to be running all the time.
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Response Number 4
Name: bone Date: October 8, 2001 at 02:40:31 Pacific
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it doesn't normally show up in the Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) listing, but if you use another process viewer utility like ATM, you will see it running in 'realtime' priority.
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