re: dmadmin.exe puzzle
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 12:55 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by PeterD
(338 messages posted)
Norman, just a thought. Take a look in system services to see what the start setting
is for Logical Disk Manager Admin Services. It should be "manual" for both XP home
and XP Pro. If it isn't , set it so, reboot and see what happens to dmadmin.exe.
May give some clue.
Cheers, PeterD
On Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 10:30 pm, normanw wrote:
>This one is a bit of a puzzle, so if anyone has a definitive answer, it
>will be welcome.
>
>Recently, dmdadmin.exe has been appearing in Task Manager all the
>time. According to the only relevant information I could find, it
>should run only when partioning or some other disk confiugration
>process requires it. I have no such operation in progress
>and have not had one for a long time.
>
>Google produces countless references to dmadmin.exe, mostly
>in the process of a sales pitch and none from a source I would
>risk touching with a longer than usual barge pole. My attempts to
>locate some sensible and relevant information at Microsoft so far
>have met with a singular lack of success.
>
>This does not appear to be a critical, or even serious, issue but is
>a damned niggle and I would like to find a solution if possible to save
>a few KB of resources.
>
>Answers please on a stamped addressed postc ... er, oh, sorry --
>that's the wrong thing here -- just some informed information,
>please: no off-the-wall suppositions.
>
>Oh, and yah boo sucks to Uncle Bill.
>
>
>
>
>‘There’s always tomorrow. At least, there always has been, so far.’ – Keith Waterhouse
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