Wireless Resources (They Think)

[craigwolfenden]

Hello everyone, just a little question regarding my Sony Vaio. I recently purchased a "Belkin ADSL Modem With HighSpeed Mode Wireless G Router", knowing it is not good to miss-match brand names, I brought a PCI Belkin card for my second PC (in the dinning room) and a PCMCIA card for my laptop (Belkin High-Speed Mode Wireless G Notebook Network Cad).

I have a service constantly running "", even when the card is not present. I have scoured the internet and can trace this back to my Wireless PCMCIA NIC card. The problem is it hoggs all the resources and seems to do nothing but slow my laptop down. It will use 70-100% on average of my valuable CPU time, drastically slowing down my PC.

I know I can stop the service running using "msconfig.exe" but does anyone actually know what this prog does?? My network runs fine without it. Any light would be great. Thanks for taking the time to read.

 

[JoshT976]

See if there is a driver update for your wireless NIC, as it sounds like some type of Memory leak.

Joshua

 

[jmreinwald]

Also, when you say the network runs fine without it, I assume you are stopping the service and the wireless works ok? If so, you can probably just disable the service (as opposed to automatically or manual startup) in the meantime.