On 19 Sep 2005 at 15:20, Ken Moore wrote:

> I have been working on Finwin 2004a.r1 this morning but turned my
> attention to some other tasks and found the computer reacting rather
> sluggishly.  A check of the "Processes" window of Windows Task Manager
> (XP Home Edition) shows Finale using between 85% and 90% of the CPU,
> even when parked (i.e. reduced to a taskbar button).  Does anyone else
> suffer this, or is it a quirk of my setup?

My Finale 2003 doesn't seem to do that at all, whether maximized or 
minimized. There are many programs that have idle threads that will 
sit and poll the system, and these often show up in Task Manager as 
very active even when they're not really doing anything significant 
(those threads are usually the lowest possible priority so that they 
give up the CPU to just about any other process that requests it), 
but my version of Finale doesn't seem to do that. I just checked the 
Finale 2005 demo, and it appears to be just about the same (though 
about 1 or 2% less CPU usage).

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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