Microsoft provides hotfix for Tablet PC memory leak
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Microsoft released a patch Tuesday that fixes a memory leak problem that has frustrated users of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. Microsoft said the problem resulted from a memory leak in the Tablet PC operating system's tcserver.exe service.
According to Microsoft, a certain subset of usersthose who do not power down their Tablet PCs every day or every other dayhave found that memory can "leak" through the stylus, causing a degradation of system performance.
"In other words, the stylus sucks up all the juice, and when it gets bad enough, the operating system issues a GPF General Protection Fault that causes the system to crash, boom, and you have to reboot," said Yankee Group Research Inc. senior analyst Laura DiDio.