About once a day now there seems to be some sort of memory leak into Services.exe , untill its at 400meg ! And kills the speed of my machine. Its not the services.exe virus , as the file is in the correct directory win32 , its a legitimate process. When i restart my ocmputer the file size drops to about 4,000K which i believe is about average. Does anyone have any idea on how to stop this from happening ? thanks neil

Contrary to what you say, the legitimate folder for legitimate services.exe to reside in Windows XP is \windows\System32. I do not have Win32 on the machine I am running at the moment. i_XpUser

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ctrl+alt+del click on the processes tab find services.exe right-click on it and go to priority and choose the appropriate setting but that's only if you're desperate.