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Tablet PC bug gobbles resources; Microsoft says to reboot

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Given the huge success of Microsoft's Tablet PC Edition of Windows XP, we somehow expect that not a lot of you will care about this, but we'll share the news anyhow: A bug in the OS causes the Tablet Input Panel (the process that handles pen input) to steadily increase its use of system resources until there's nothing left for other apps. Until a fix is available, Microsoft's helpful advice is to reboot daily. We can offer some even better solutions, but we think you have a good idea of what those are.