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    Does anyone know what's going on with Access connection?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by zerosource, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. zerosource

    zerosource Notebook Deity

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    Take a look at the image below.

    My vista got slowdown to what I can't work on.
    I wonder what's going on? I'm sure this is not normal.

    [​IMG]
     
    zerosource, Jul 24, 2008
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    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    Big-*** memory leak in Lenovo Software. Check for an update on their srivers & support page, and for now, just click on end proces.
     
    rubenvb, Jul 24, 2008
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    Thread on this over at the Lenovo support forum. Fix due by end of July.

    My advice - unless you need something special which Access Connections does for you, uninstall it and use Vista to manage your connections. Access Connections is generally unnecessary bloatware, buggy, and gets in the way.
     
    bananaman, Jul 24, 2008
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    Wow, never looked on my machine to see how much memory it was taking. Will have to do that, but I have a boat load of memory anyway. I really like the Access connection software over Vista's connection manager. My main issue with Vista's manager is that I can't figure out how to connect to a Wifi network that isn't broadcasting it's SSID. Does anybody know?
     
    The Fire Snake, Jul 24, 2008
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    You have to click "Setup a connection" and you manually type in SSID and password. Then there is an option to connect to the network even if it is broadcasting.
     
    Paul386, Jul 24, 2008
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    I had the same problem with Access Connections a while back. Every time I would check, it was just leaking more and more memory. I uninstalled it. Later (I don't remember why) I reinstalled it; I've had no problems that I know of ever since.
     
    GoGoGadget, Jul 26, 2008
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