topic Re: windowsformsparking in PCs & Accessories

windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:48:33 GMT

Anyone know about this? i get it sometimes when i shut down. it seems to be related to after and when i get a low memory message. i try to do too much in one program and my puter can't handle it sometimes and also i probably have too much other stuff open at teh same time.
anyway i did a google and there wasn't much, it was mentioned on those forums where you post a hijack this log. i did a log and i didn't see anything unusual. the one thing new as such is my external harddrive, its a Maxtor, it may be related to that. the windowsformsparking on some of the forums was related to a HP printer.
before i go and post a log somewhere, has anyone any hints or ideas or what exactly causes windowsformsparking.
thanks.

Re: windowsformsparking

kee-lo_ — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:13:28 GMT

Hi Lizzie,

I'll check my Maxtor for that - maybe it's the program which parks the heads of the hard disk?

I know what you mean by overworking your VAIO, I'm guilty of that

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:21:46 GMT

That’s the thing I don’t have a HP printer, the only external thing I have is my external Maxtor harddrive, so it obviously involves an external device.

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:27:40 GMT

I should have said, it comes up as that message you get when a program doesn’t shut down properly and you can either click end now, cancel or wait for it to shut down.

Thanks!

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:03:10 GMT

I have read that this has something to do with HP printers as you stated. I noted that goto msconfig and disable hp image zone fast start (hpqthb08.exe) this may help. Not sure though! Do you have a HP printer, if so maybe they have a solution!

Re: windowsformsparking

kee-lo_ — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:31:49 GMT

I don't seem to have that process and I have that same drive

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:40:28 GMT

i found more on google under 'windowsformparking' (drop the s after form)
one place suggested it is a "a useless idle program which sits in the background sucking memory."

i've posted a thread and i'll let you know how i get on.

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:59:07 GMT

I been googling and found references to windowsformsparking. Sadly no definitive answer though!
The solutions generally seem to be using msconfig & unchecking items manually. You said you recently added a maxtor external drive maybe this has caused some form of conflict.:smileysad:

Sorry I can't help more

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:13:19 GMT

i have the maxtor a few months now. i'm going to do a hijack this log on one of those forums and see what they say.

thanks very much for your help.

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:16:26 GMT

Good Luck

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:58:11 GMT

You beat me to it just tried that myself

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:05:07 GMT

they aren't answering my thread, they seem to be answering everyone elses.

can anyone recommend some geek sites i post my problem to please?

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:05:31 GMT

what site(s) have you used?

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:12:50 GMT

Lockergnome seems ok

http://help.lockergnome.com/

not tried it myself though

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:15:44 GMT

what site(s) have you used?

www.geekstogo.com

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:16:34 GMT

Geeks to go may be another option

http://geekstogo.com

You may have already tried these, let me know how you get on please?

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:27:46 GMT

i think i've stumped them, heh.

i can't figure out the forum in the other place. i'll leave it with geekstogo for the mo and see if i get an answer tomorrow.

thanks.

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:31:10 GMT

I think you're right you may have stumped them, I'm sure they will get round to answering you in time.

Fingers crossed!!

Re: windowsformsparking

Lizzie — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:48:11 GMT

alright, they sent me off to do a malware check, there was some showing up on the log. downloaded about 6 spyware, adware etc programs and ran them all. ewido picked up a biggy and over 853 infected files!!! [:">]
they said if that doesn't fix it to go back and repost another hijack this log.
testing it now and see how it goes.

Re: windowsformsparking

Thalamus. — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:41:12 GMT

To detect & remove malware I have found Spybot Search & Destroy a good program.

ewido's detection seems very impressive though.

Fingers crossed that this solves the problem.