Dai Sapisrv.exe Plskthx

Scythe

<div class="IPBDescription">Not NS related, Feel free to bump to OT.</div> Recently I set up Office XP's voice recognition stuff. Got it all trained up and whatnot. It's actually pretty accurate.

I got bored with it and disabled the language bar but recently I've noticed that my computer was running sluggishly. I thought it was my FTP server but nothing changed when I disabled it. I checked the process list and there's this "sapisrv.exe" sitting there hogging up 35+ meg of memory. With google and randomnine's and help on #ns we discovered it was voice recognition server. So I kill it and bingo, instant performance boost.

However it's taken to starting itself back up again for reasons unknown. It isn't listed in the XP services list (Not obviously anyhoo).

Anyone know how to disable this for good short of deleting sapisrv.exe? Or renaming it for that matter.

--Scythe--

Maxious

id delete it personally - i did it during the office 2003 beta test cause the setup wizard was too bugged to remove it. try uninstalling Voice Recognision through the office setup program first <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Scythe

Well slap me with a trout and call me a nub. There's a wee checkbox labeled "Speech" in Word's options dropdown doover.

GG Microsoft.

--Scythe--

zerwalter

Lol thats almost as good as the system not being able to find lsass.exe!

Scythe

Whoopsiedo.

It keeps starting itself back up occasionally even though I've disabled it in word. I've renamed and moved the sapisrv.exe file without effect. I just recreates a new one in the same place.

Any suggestions?

--Scythe--

devicenull

Get OpenOffice.ORG <a href='http://openoffice.org' target='_blank'>here</a> Its a freeware replacement to M$Office, that works alot better, IMO

Thansal

without bothering to reinstall an entire diff WP

If windows likes a file and always replaces it, you gota do a search for hidden files also

there will be a copy of it somewhere

rename that <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

devicenull

Get some other file.. Ideally like a vb program or something, that does nothing but exit when you load it.. if you can't make one for some reason PM me and I'll make one
Then put it in place of the other file <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This works wonders with adware supported programs too <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Edd

While im not sure what OS you use, on 98 run ms config and look for it under startup.

Scythe

I created an zero bite file called sapisrv.exe in place of the real one. As soon as I did so it replaced it with the same goddamned file.

There's nothing in msconfig about it either.

--Scythe--

devicenull

Do the same thing you did, but make the file read-only
If that doesnt work make a batch file that deletes it, then have that run when the computer starts

Scythe

It doesn't just start on boot, it seems to start at random intervals.

I created the zero byte file and made it read-only but it still overwrote it.

Any more suggestions?

--Scythe--