I have run the diagnotic tool a couple times to see if my memory is running
the way it should, and I am aware that after you log back into Windows, the
tool reports whether your memory is working properly or not.

However, both times that I ran it, the tool's icon appeared in the taskbar
beside the little power icon and system clock... no status pop-up, nothing.
The thing is that when I try to click on it or right-click it, nothing
happens.

The MDres.exe process keeps showing up in the task manager every time I
reboot. There is no shortcut to it in the Startup folder, nor am I able to
find any entry in the registry to turn off its loading on startup. I have
opened the system configuration window, but it's not listed there either. How
do I stop it from launching every time I boot up Vista?

I have found a few inquiries about this on the internet dating as far back
as March 2007, but no solution has been presented anywhere. I hope you folks
could shed some light on it.

Cheers,
delta_j

2 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
T5300 Core 2 Duo
Vista Ultimate 32-bit (legit)

Hi,

Download and run Hijackthis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php

The log it creates should show where it is initializing from (I would
suspect the registry/run services group).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"delta_J" wrote in message
...
I have run the diagnotic tool a couple times to see if my memory is running
the way it should, and I am aware that after you log back into Windows,
the
tool reports whether your memory is working properly or not.

However, both times that I ran it, the tool's icon appeared in the taskbar
beside the little power icon and system clock... no status pop-up,
nothing.
The thing is that when I try to click on it or right-click it, nothing
happens.

The MDres.exe process keeps showing up in the task manager every time I
reboot. There is no shortcut to it in the Startup folder, nor am I able to
find any entry in the registry to turn off its loading on startup. I have
opened the system configuration window, but it's not listed there either.
How
do I stop it from launching every time I boot up Vista?

I have found a few inquiries about this on the internet dating as far back
as March 2007, but no solution has been presented anywhere. I hope you
folks
could shed some light on it.

Cheers,
delta_j

2 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
T5300 Core 2 Duo
Vista Ultimate 32-bit (legit)

Rick,
Thanks for your quick response. However, Hijackthis didn't tell me anything
I didn't already know. The mdres.exe process originates from the
\Windows\system32 folder. There is no other mention of it in the log file.

I don't want to go digging through the registry for any trace of mdres.exe
in case I delete the entries which allow the diagnostic tool to run in the
first place.

Any ideas?

delta_j

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

Download and run Hijackthis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php

The log it creates should show where it is initializing from (I would
suspect the registry/run services group).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"delta_J" wrote in message
...
I have run the diagnotic tool a couple times to see if my memory is running
the way it should, and I am aware that after you log back into Windows,
the
tool reports whether your memory is working properly or not.

However, both times that I ran it, the tool's icon appeared in the taskbar
beside the little power icon and system clock... no status pop-up,
nothing.
The thing is that when I try to click on it or right-click it, nothing
happens.

The MDres.exe process keeps showing up in the task manager every time I
reboot. There is no shortcut to it in the Startup folder, nor am I able to
find any entry in the registry to turn off its loading on startup. I have
opened the system configuration window, but it's not listed there either.
How
do I stop it from launching every time I boot up Vista?

I have found a few inquiries about this on the internet dating as far back
as March 2007, but no solution has been presented anywhere. I hope you
folks
could shed some light on it.

Cheers,
delta_j

2 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
T5300 Core 2 Duo
Vista Ultimate 32-bit (legit)

Can you send me the log please.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"delta_J" wrote in message
...
Rick,
Thanks for your quick response. However, Hijackthis didn't tell me
anything
I didn't already know. The mdres.exe process originates from the
\Windows\system32 folder. There is no other mention of it in the log file.

I don't want to go digging through the registry for any trace of mdres.exe
in case I delete the entries which allow the diagnostic tool to run in the
first place.

Any ideas?

delta_j

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

Download and run Hijackthis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php

The log it creates should show where it is initializing from (I would
suspect the registry/run services group).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"delta_J" wrote in message
...
I have run the diagnotic tool a couple times to see if my memory is
running
the way it should, and I am aware that after you log back into Windows,
the
tool reports whether your memory is working properly or not.

However, both times that I ran it, the tool's icon appeared in the
taskbar
beside the little power icon and system clock... no status pop-up,
nothing.
The thing is that when I try to click on it or right-click it, nothing
happens.

The MDres.exe process keeps showing up in the task manager every time I
reboot. There is no shortcut to it in the Startup folder, nor am I able
to
find any entry in the registry to turn off its loading on startup. I
have
opened the system configuration window, but it's not listed there
either.
How
do I stop it from launching every time I boot up Vista?

I have found a few inquiries about this on the internet dating as far
back
as March 2007, but no solution has been presented anywhere. I hope you
folks
could shed some light on it.

Cheers,
delta_j

2 GB RAM
200 GB HDD
T5300 Core 2 Duo
Vista Ultimate 32-bit (legit)

I have exactly the same problem. I had my ThinkPad T400, new, running
just fine with one 2gb stick of memory. I added an identical stick that
I pulled from another ThinkPad, but I guess they did not form a matched
pair because I got the blue message that the new hardware I installed
should be removed. I tried running the memory check but it would not
finish and I could not remove it. I removed the extra memory and went
back to the single stick that worked in the first place, but now I have
a permanently running memory diagnostic that I can't get rid of! It
never is able to finish, so it sits on my task bar when I bootup and I
can't close it. Not sure how to stop.


--
jtimouri

On another site it suggested I enter bdcedit/bootsequence
{memdiag}/remove and that should fix the situation. I did that, but it
did not work.


--
jtimouri