New Power Manager contains *major* memory hog

[AlexanderT]

I just upgraded power manager to the latest version (2.33) when I noticed that there is a new memory-resistant tool process installed that turns out to be a memory hog.

It's called PWMUIAux.EXE and is actually a .NET program:

http://www.4dots.com/pmuiaux.jpg

As you can see, only Firefox and the Vista windows manager take more memory on my system than this new Lenovo process, which occupies more than 70MB of private memory.

Killing this process works, and I see no side effects. Can anyone shed some more light into this new process?

[Harryc]

Mod Edit - Removed .img tags from above post. Please do not post inline pics in the forum without putting a warning in the subject line, per forum rules.

[allen]

ugh this makes me want to puke,
i just signed in to also make a post about this, and i'm dissapointed there hasn't been an answer to this issue...
my windows task manager says it's using about 18mb, still a lot for what didn't used to be there.

i've looked in services and in startup and haven't seen it, i'm pretty sure it's associated with the green battery icon next to the system tray, which i want to keep. if it is related to that icon, then it must also be related to:

(i'm using startupCPL)
PWRMGRTR - rundll32 C:\PROGRA~1\ThinkPad\UTILIT~1\PWRMGRTR.DLL,PwrMgrBkGndMonitor

it confuses me though because, i used to have that disabled from startup, and had this one instead:

BLOG - rundll32 C:\PROGRA~1\ThinkPad\UTILIT~1\BatLogEx.DLL,StartBattLog

and i'd have the green batt icon, but then at some point the batt icon stopped showing up, and i enabled PWRMGRTR and disabled BLOG.

all i want is the battery icon w/ percentage!

EDIT - adding to note i'm on power manager 1.51a now

ok now i'm realizing i have 2 seemingly different 1.51a versions of power manager, FnF3 and the start menu bring me to different ones. FnF3 brings me to a seemingly newer interface of power manager, a thinkvantage technologies thing pops up after i hit manage schemes, then to the main interface window, so strange, i've had problems with power manager since the get go, 2+ yrs now. it's never worked properly except to give me that green battery icon

[AlexanderT]

allen,

The last version before Lenovo redid the power manager user interface (and added considerable bloat to it) was 2.20. You can download it from here:

https://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/ ... u412ww.txt
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/p ... u412ww.exe

Best,
Alex

[skriefal]

Those links are to the latest version, v2.42.

[allen]

hey thanks but, that looks like for vista, i'm on xp pro sp3,

[AlexanderT]

@allen: sorry, I didn't see that. ;(

@skriefal: sorry, the right links are as follows:

https://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/ ... u407ww.txt
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/p ... u407ww.exe

[thinkfae]

allen, I'm having exactly the same problem as you. My Power Manager 1.51a is eating up more than 19MB of memory.

I do want some of the controls that PM has, like showing the green battery icon. It's just that it's sucking up so much memory. What's the worse that can happen if you uninstall PM?

I hope Lenovo does something about the bloated ThinkVantage suite soon. Sigh.

ugh this makes me want to puke,
i just signed in to also make a post about this, and i'm dissapointed there hasn't been an answer to this issue...
my windows task manager says it's using about 18mb, still a lot for what didn't used to be there.

...

[allen]

i'm currently in the process of a reformat due to other issues.
The power manager, i could never tell if it followed sleep times i set, and, which can also be set in windows. All i like is the icon to show remaining batt power, and setting charge thresholds. Since i'm reinstalling my system, i may just stick with a previous version of power manager... If possible!

[thinkfae]

If you find a previous version of PM that isn't such a memory hog, please post it here! I'm also running WinXP SP3.

[killer]

I am running Win XP Pro SP3 and have Power Manager version 1.51a. TASKMGR shows it using no more than 2% of memory and usually 0%.

[thinkfae]

killer, wow! That's a heck of a difference.

Is it still possible to download the 1.51a version somewhere? (Assuming it's compatible with my R60 - which model do you own?)

[killer]

I am using a T43 1871-FWG with Win XP Pro SP3. (It says that in my signature, I think.)

You can download 1.51a version for XP here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-70602

Good luck!

[allen]

hey, think,
can you let me know if re downloading and installing 1.51a resolves the problem?
having just restored my system to factor settings, i'm on power manager 1.13...
i can't even tell yet if one of my processes is a power manager one... gotta reinstall process explorer

[kenzaoe]

i would not install 1.51a. go with an older version
chances are that your system update has a cached version of some of the oldest versions
search for them in the directory below:

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$ cd /cygdrive/c/apps/Lenovo/System Update/session
$ grep --color -iRnH "PWRMGR_XP" .
./7vu714ww/7vu714ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu714ww" version="1.40">
./7vu720ww/7vu720ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu720ww" version="1.43">
./7vu724ww/7vu724ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu724ww" version="1.47">
./7zu707ww/7zu707ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7zu707ww" version="1.51a">
./temp/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7vu714ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu714ww" version="1.40">
./temp/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7vu720ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu720ww" version="1.43">
./temp/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7vu724ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7vu724ww" version="1.47">
./temp/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/7zu707ww_2_.xml:4:<Package name="PWRMGR_XP" id="7zu707ww" version="1.51a">

[kenzaoe]

found the url for 1.48 installer
https://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/ ... u725ww.exe