sqlservr.exe

Does anyone know why the process sqlservr.exe runs when my PC starts? It
seems to use about 20 mb while it does who knows what then settles down to
676k. Closing the process has no noticeable affect.

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Steve

"Leythos" wrote in message
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In article , "Steve" No Spam says...
Does anyone know why the process sqlservr.exe runs when my PC starts? It
seems to use about 20 mb while it does who knows what then settles down
to
676k. Closing the process has no noticeable affect.

If you are running MS Office Business Contact Manager (part of Outlook)
or if you've installed some application that uses a database, that's why
SQLSERVR is there.

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/pr...servr.exe.html

It's a database file.

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Leythos!
You do get about. My suspicion is that it installed with Visual Basic which
I don't seem to be finding time to work with (too much time coding Excel).
If it did install with VB, I don't understand why it needs to run if VB is
not started. Any idea how to disable it? Neither Winpatrol nor Spybot give
me anything to work with.

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Steve

"Leythos" wrote in message
.. .
In article , "Steve" No Spam says...

"Leythos" wrote in message
.. .
In article , "Steve" No Spam says...
Does anyone know why the process sqlservr.exe runs when my PC starts?
It
seems to use about 20 mb while it does who knows what then settles
down
to
676k. Closing the process has no noticeable affect.

If you are running MS Office Business Contact Manager (part of Outlook)
or if you've installed some application that uses a database, that's
why
SQLSERVR is there.

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/pr...servr.exe.html

It's a database file.

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Leythos!
You do get about. My suspicion is that it installed with Visual Basic
which
I don't seem to be finding time to work with (too much time coding
Excel).
If it did install with VB, I don't understand why it needs to run if VB
is
not started. Any idea how to disable it? Neither Winpatrol nor Spybot
give
me anything to work with.

You can disable the "Service" or you can uninstall it.

Go to a dos shell and type "NET START" without the quotes and hit enter,
then look at all the things that are running.

You can type "NET STOP service-name", or you can disable it, or set it
to Manual in the Services.

Depending on the version of VB (or VB.Net) or Visual Studio, or even MS
Office, you could have installed it with one of those, and several other
vendors products have SQL also.

Since it's not malware none of the anti-malware tools would be expected
to give you "anything to work with".

Many times, when running SQL, you also have the SQL Service Manager in
your task bar, running from the boot/start, it doesn't use much CPU/RAM,
but you can also disable it.

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Running NET START gave me a list about 45 entries long. 'Server' looked
close but, I doubted this was the entry requiring stopping. A thorough hunt
over the system located an SQL configurtion manager. It gave me naff all to
work with that I could understand BUT, I did use it to change the service
SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) from 'automatic' to 'disabled'. I'm willing to take
bets that this did the job and sqlservr does not fire up next system start.
I'll also give good odds I forget how to reverse this when I need it in six
months or so!

Its very tempting to start NET STOPing services a lot of those services in
an attempt to hurry up boot time. Is there a list somewhere of
necessary/unnecessary/optional?

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Steve