it worked! thanks so much; this has been driving me crazy.

nope, no luck. every one gives me the same result with no remotely helpful information.

(sorry for the delay; out of town for the holidays)

got a shiny new adapter dongle to connect to my 5GHz network. i was hoping the adapter dongle would be plug & play, but no such luck. :( so i've tried to install drivers from the cd that came with...

FIXED IT. my phone was paired with the speaker! i turned off bluetooth on the phone and everything works.

for future reference - will i always have to do this for the speaker to connect to the...

nope, already did that and forgot to mention it... i right-click on the speaker icon, press "connect" and nothing happens.

don't know if it matters but checking the bluetooth settings gives me...

i'm trying to play music through a bluetooth speaker. both the speaker and my laptop say that they are connected, but sound is only coming from the laptop speakers. so i check the default sound...

so. i did a system restore, and the mysterious process was still there! GAH.

aaaand then i remembered that i'd installed a fresh version of Anvir Task Manager about a week ago, right around the...

good point - i'll try reverting and see if that changes anything.

i'm using AnVir.

using the compact /compactos:query prompt tells me that compression is turned off.

the process was not listed in the task manager until last week or so. i can't find an online reference a process...

ok... i'll leave this marked as unsolved then, so maybe someone else can help.

thanks anyway!

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no, that is not what i mean.

"system" and "system idle process" have always been running. i do know what they are, and i know why they use the amount of RAM (and CPU %) that they do.

my...

again, i do understand what memory compression is. i'm asking about that particular process, for the reasons i listed above - recent appearance, weird name, no info, etcetera.

this recently showed up in my process list, taking up a huge amount of RAM. it now doesn't take up so much memory, but it's still over 100Mb.

i do understand memory compression. what bothers me...