Most TabletPC enthusiasts know about the notorious memory leak issue
associated with Windows XP TabletPC
Edition 2005’s Tablet
Input Panel (TIP). Just today, I was
reading a post
to the Microsoft TabletPC newsgroup,
in which someone requested a status update regarding the fix that Microsoft
programmers are developing. It occurred
to me that for some time (weeks? months? I am ashamed to admit I don’t know), I
have rarely had to run the little batch
file that some of us Tableteers use as a work-around, and I wondered why. I recall that my
memory upgrade made the problem occur less frequently, but that only meant running
the batch file fewer times a day, not practically eliminating it altogether.
Months ago, I installed the 4.82-9 version of the Wacom Penabled drivers. It
didn’t take me long to discover that response at the top of my tablet screen
was negatively impacted, but it wasn’t until a few hours ago that I finally
re-installed the 4.79-4 version of the drivers.
Within a couple of hours, I noticed my machine was sluggish; a look into
the Task Manager showed my TIP using up 80% or more CPU. I had to resort to my clearink batch file
again.
I wonder if this is just coincidence, or if the newer Wacom
drivers were somehow making my TIP behave. If there were a connection, someone else would have noticed…right?