Happily Going Along...

[wstephens]

I've been happily using Creator 2010 until (due to an unrelated investigation) I discovered all this background activity from CinemanowSvc.exe, VxBlockServer.exe, and RoxioBurnLauncher.exe.

 

Is there a way to eliminate all this disk activity?

 

Does the Creator 2012 version have all this constant disk activity as well?

 

Thanks for any help.

[Brendon]

How much background activity is there?

[wstephens]

How much background activity? Constant. Both CinemanowSvc.exe and VxBlockServer.exe are constantly accessing / checking registry keys and a couple of file locations.

 

There is a tool that I got from Microsoft called Process Monitor that shows everything going on.

[wstephens]

I've uninstalled CinemaNow Media Manager to get rid of its constant background activity. That disables Roxio Venue, but I have never used either one.

 

The question remains as to whether VxBlockServer can somehow be calmed.

[Brendon]

I have a problem, I can't find the VxBlockServer active at all on my Creator 2010 under XP or under Windows 7.

Both are 32-bit, is your installation 64-bit, wstephens?

[bimicher]

I've uninstalled CinemaNow Media Manager to get rid of its constant background activity. That disables Roxio Venue, but I have never used either one.

 

The question remains as to whether VxBlockServer can somehow be calmed.

 

Here is a link to a older thread discussing the VxBlockServer issue.

[wstephens]

> Both are 32-bit, is your installation 64-bit, wstephens?

 

I have Windows 7 and installed Creator 2010 with the defaults, so whatever result that would create.

 

The real issue is that my system has decided not to sleep anymore (after my 2 hour inactivity setting), which I don't think is Roxio related, but that was what started me on this 'what is running?' examination.

[cdanteek]

> Both are 32-bit, is your installation 64-bit, wstephens?

 

I have Windows 7 and installed Creator 2010 with the defaults, so whatever result that would create.

 

The real issue is that my system has decided not to sleep anymore (after my 2 hour inactivity setting), which I don't think is Roxio related, but that was what started me on this 'what is running?' examination.

 

Brendon asked if your Operating System is x32 or x64 bit!

 

Right click my computer and click properties. What does yours say?

 

[wstephens]

Sorry, I thought he was talking about Creator being 32 or 64.

 

The computer says 64-bit in Control Panel/System.

[Brendon]

Okay, that might explain why I can't see VxBlockServer.exe running on my machine. Mine is 32-bit.

 

Sorry, I can't help you any more wstephens - I need to leave it to the Big Boys running the 64-bit OS.

 

Regards,

Brendon