Nero 7 vs. Firefox 306?

[Paolo]

Mozilla hasn't discovered this yet, and there's nothing to be found on Google about it yet, but it's the only thing I can come up with.

I keep notes on what updates when. Two days ago, Firefox found an update and went to 3.0.6.

I have an older version of Ram Idle XP running here under 2K/SP4. I have it set so that all it does is tell me how much RAM is free. Nothing else. After the upgrade, I burned a data DVD. So far so good.

The only reason I have Nero is because the machine came bundled with it. Much to my delight, it worked. Of course, the bundle version won't burn a video DVD from anything, unless you pay for that upgrade...never mind, I have some other software that was free to do that and it has never blown it yet.

Right after making the DVD, I noticed that instead of having the usual 1.5 GIG RAM free, I had 700 meg. The more I browsed in Firefox, the more the RAM continued to fall. Eventually, it got down to 500. I pulled up Task Manager for a look-see.

A process called NMIndexingservi was consuming 500 meg RAM!

After much research, I found some others having this issue, but they did not report what browser they were using. I found that this a component of Nero Home and/or Nero Scout. I have no idea what these do, but from what I read, you do not need them to burn discs.

I pulled up Nero options to disable features, as the sites suggested. This caused a repeated error program error of another Nero component, as if the uninstall were not complete. The RAM consumption was gone, though. Note that the main Nero interface was not running.

Solution was to put the Nero CD back in, and select REPAIR. I told it to not install Home, unchecked the option for Scout, and did not install Nero Media Center or Player.

Problem solved. I don't understand how this could be related to the Firefox upgrade, but apparently, it is.

So if you have Nero 7, maybe even 6, and you're suddenly running slow for no reason, check for this Nmindexingservi process. Odds are, it's hogging your RAM and needs to go, because it will never quit whatever it's doing.