PSTORES & IE: Does IE load pstores.exe module by default?

I am trying to improve my BBS. I have "quick login" page with just two fields (username & password) and a submit button on it. To make the login process even faster I want to use javascript's document.username.focus() to put cursor in username field. However, BBS users complain against this action, because upon calling the focus() method IE allegedly loads PSTORES.EXE (module used by IE for autocomplete) which causes IE and user's system to slow down noticeably.

My question: does IE really load pstores.exe upon request or does it load it by default? (in which case users are basically screwing with me! ) Or maybe it does not even load it at all in the case of focus()...

 

Sorry I have no answer for you. Just bringing this back to the top. Good question and surely someone will look at it and know the answer.

 

I would question the premise of the question. loading protected storage, in and of itself isnt going to "degrade performance" on a healthy machine. Since we are talking about seeing an exe loading, im going to assume your user is a win98 dude. Under operating systems that have shipped this decade, protected storage is a service, and is running at boot. HOWEVER.. Since they are running old school, there are some vectors for thier machine performance to be impacted if something is broken. Check this article out, which talks about the phenomenon, and how to rebuild.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;271510

Its loading because of the focus, just like it would load when they clicked thier mouse into the edit box. *shrug*

 

A suggestion

Hi...

Maybe you might want to take a look at this MS$ knowledge base article...

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q251/7/87.ASP&NoWebContent=1

According to that, Pstores.exe is used as part of the auto-complete feature in Internet Explorer and can cause slow downs....

Cheers
Jake

 

Thank you. Your comments were very insightful and helpful.

Two things that I now know are: First - this "problem" occurs only on "unhealthy Win98 systems ", which complaining users have (as I found out.) Second - If user click on (and puts cursor in) the form field, PSTORES loads anyway.

So here's what I have to say: Either use the "quick login" page with auto-focus or don't use it at all.

Thanks again!