Winlogon.exe memory leak?

[Guest]

I use my computer for gaming but since I could only afford 1GB of RAM,
freeing up memory that is being used for noncritical processes is important
to me.

I noticed after playing Battlefield 2 for about 30 minutes that winlogon.exe
was taking up 40MB. Before I started it was only using 4MB. I left my
computer idle for about 5 minutes hoping it would go down but it did not. I
had to reboot to reclaim the memory. I did not want to attempt to end the
process. No processes started when I ran the game remained in memory. They
all shut down cleanly.

Any idea why Winlogon.exe would be using so much memory? I couldn't find
any KB article about it. I am the only user on this machine but I do have a
secondary user profile that I only have as a backup.

Scandisk/Defrag/Virus scan - no problems
XP Pro all patched
Video, sound drivers, DirectX all current

 

[Plato]

I use my computer for gaming but since I could only afford 1GB of RAM,
freeing up memory that is being used for noncritical processes is important
to me.

I noticed after playing Battlefield 2 for about 30 minutes that winlogon.exe
was taking up 40MB. Before I started it was only using 4MB. I left my
computer idle for about 5 minutes hoping it would go down but it did not. I

40 meg out of 1 gig is not that much. What is not running properly when
you play the game???

 

[Guest]

Battlefield 2 is a memory hog. It easily takes up more than 600MB while
playing, and Windows itself requires almost 300MB. But that doesn't address
the reason winlogon.exe uses up so much memory _when I'm not logging on_. So
I'm asking if there is a known memory leak.

 

[Paul Pedersen]

Apparently there is:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912354