helpsvc.exe running without being told to run?

[aries]

under what conditions would you normally expect helpsvc.exe to start itself?

I was making out Christmas cards two days ago and had turned away from the
computer for a half hour, maybe an hour, and I heard the thing "churning" so
I opened task manager and saw helpsvc.exe using a great deal of memory.. that
has
never happened before. Usually when I hear it churning it is due to the
update on McAfee or something like that. This is a first.

It got up to 113,000 and then decreased by itself. I was not actually
working on the computer, but minding my own business.

strange. do I have the right category for this question?

 

[kim]

Have a look here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839017

"aries" <aries@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> under what conditions would you normally expect helpsvc.exe to start
> itself?
>
> I was making out Christmas cards two days ago and had turned away from the
> computer for a half hour, maybe an hour, and I heard the thing "churning"
> so
> I opened task manager and saw helpsvc.exe using a great deal of memory..
> that
> has
> never happened before. Usually when I hear it churning it is due to the
> update on McAfee or something like that. This is a first.
>
> It got up to 113,000 and then decreased by itself. I was not actually
> working on the computer, but minding my own business.
>
> strange. do I have the right category for this question?
>