MZ-NH1 Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 After installing SS 3.0 on my Windows XP SP2 PC, there are two new items in the Windows Task Manager. I am just wondering if I need these two programs to start or wether I can stop them from starting.They areSSAAD.exe and SSScsiSV.exeIf these aren’t to do with SS then forgive me, but I am pretty sure they are.How should I go about stoping these from running, if I don’t really need them running?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 SSScsiSV = most likely a custom ASPI layer for SS, for CD burning. On my system, with SS not open et al, this process falls to about 320kB memory usage, so as long as your CD drives stay working in all other apps, this should be okay to leave running. If you have trouble burning from other apps, go to the services control panel and STOP this service and see if it fixes the problem.SSAAD = I don't know, but it puts itself in the startup, and SS works fine if you remove it. Best guess is that this is either a daemon to tell SS to start when you plug your netMD / HiMD in [which is in option in SS 3.0] or it's a daemon to preload SS's modules to decrease its loading time. ...note: SSAAD reinserts itself into your startup every time you run SS. doG I hate startup progs that do that. While SS works fine with it unloaded, it will load again after your next reboot. This is as bad as Realplayer's startup item that you can't get rid of. Either way, it doesn't appear to be doing my system harm other than consuming memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 Thanks for that info. The apps arn't using very much memory, just wondering what they were...I didn't mean to create a new thread for this topic sorry, I meant to do it under 1 of the SS 3.0 problems thread :S Sorry.Thanks for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 SSAAD.exe = SonicStage Atrac Hard Disk MonitorSScsiSV.exe = SonicStage Scsi I/F Serverp.s. I split this into a thread as it didn't really have to do with the SS3 installer and figured it would be a good topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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