>-----Original Message----- >From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grumpy Gamer >Yeah - it didn't really help. Backing up my emails from within The Bat >email client is another process that makes PowerPro not responsive >until it finishes. I have a Quad Core CPU, CPU usage was only about >25% - I say the processes causing it are disk intensive based simply >on the hard drive noise while the process is occurring. I have no >actual tools that show disk usage as a graph like the Task Manager >performance tab. It may be a combination of both CPU and disk, but it >is intensely frustrating - these processes tend to take a while to >complete, and when you launch every single program on your PC from >PowerPro (and thus don't know where to find them in your Start Menu - >Start Menu is still responsive during these processes interestingly >enough, I wish PowerPro would implement the same process priority >scheme given to the Start Menu), you cannot launch any other programs >to continue on with your work until the problem process ends (and I am >the inpatient type). A 'always showing' PowerPro bar may help some, >but the main reason I have it hidden is that I hate the way that an >always showing PowerPro bar pushes any open program window down on the >screen (ie it reserves the top part of the screen for itself). You probably already know this, but if you have a bar set to position "fixed top center" and the "topmost" checked, then you have an always on top bar that doesn't reserve the top row. However, it does obscure the caption of window that's maxamized that that caption is long enough. Paul
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