On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:02:11 +1000, ehathgepiurhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > >Has anyone had any problems with how PowerPro works when your PC is >under load? Specifically, I refer to if you have your PowerPro bar >hidden (on my PC, it is hidden until I move my mouse to the top of the >screen). I have noticed that if my PC is under load (burning a CD/DVD >in Nero, running a file comparison program to check that two large >files are byte for byte similar for example), then when I move my >mouse to the top of the screen, the PowerPro bar will either not >appear until after the loading task is completed, or will take an >absolute age to appear (the delay is set to 300 milliseconds in the >bump option). I never used to notice it, so I don't know if: >a) I'm doing more CPU/disk intensive tasks than what I used to; or >b) I install every new PowerPro beta that appears when it announced in >this group, so maybe the newer beta's are more sensitive to load? >If anyone has any suggestions as to how I could make PowerPro more >responsive in this sort of situation, they would be appreciated. >Another instance of when I want my PowerPro bar to appear is if a >particular process has hung, using up 100% of the CPU. In that case, I >want to bumpthe top of the screen so my PowerPro bar appears, so I can >open up my task manager to kill it. In most cases like this, PowerPro >will just not respond. Hm, it's definitely only the newer beta's. PowerPro has definitely become more sensitive to any sort of activity on my PC, I'm not doing any more intensive tasks on my PC than what I used to. Just as an example. I have just had Spybot S&D open. I was using the built in updater to update the signatures. I wasn't performing a scan (which is CPU intensive), and I had no other utilities open on my PC. While this was happening, I want to open my Internet Browser (which I have on a PowerPro button). I have my PowerPro bar hidden, until you bump the top of the screen. So, I move my mouse to the top of the screen...and nothing happens after a few seconds (bump time is set to 300ms in PowerPro). I then move my mouse to the bottom, and back up to the top, to try again. Still nothing after a few seconds. I did this a few times, and nothing happened. I ended up using the Start Menu to open my browser. A Spybot signature update from the Internet is not a system stressing load, yet it was obviously enough to stop PowerPro (as soon as the update was done, I was able to open PowerPro by bumping the top of the screen). I think I will stop beta testing and go back to the last stable version, PowerPro is my whole system now, and I need it to be responsive. Can anyone tell me what the last final version was? On the PowerPro webpage, it says v4.5...but that seems to be the exact same file as was released for v4.5 RC1. I don't want a RC - I want the last final, stable version. -- Regards, CM Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
