StarDock Central pings my CPU at 98%
It also fights with McAfee
Thursday, June 9, 2005 by Asimo | Discussion: Object Desktop
Whenever I open SD Central it hits my CPU at about 98%. I'm assuming that it's updating skin lib's or something like that but a near 100% CPU hit is hard to deal with with updating can take up to 20 minutes.
Also, if I have McAfee turned on it's a non-stop fight to see who can hit the CPU the highest, and the machine becomes unusable for a good 15-20 minutes. SD Central is the only program on my machine that makes McAfee freak out like this. So currently I turn off McAfee, launch SD Central, and leave the room for about a half an hour while SD Central does it's thing. McAfee doesn't wrestle with any other program on my machine and I do a lot of internet-related uploading/downloading/ftp/updating things with this machine with no perf issues. I don't like having to turn off my virus proggy as I forget to turn it back on
Machine info:
WinXP SP2
Athlon 3200+
2GB RAM
Radeon X800 Pro
Thanks for any help with this,
AsimoX
Also, if I have McAfee turned on it's a non-stop fight to see who can hit the CPU the highest, and the machine becomes unusable for a good 15-20 minutes. SD Central is the only program on my machine that makes McAfee freak out like this. So currently I turn off McAfee, launch SD Central, and leave the room for about a half an hour while SD Central does it's thing. McAfee doesn't wrestle with any other program on my machine and I do a lot of internet-related uploading/downloading/ftp/updating things with this machine with no perf issues. I don't like having to turn off my virus proggy as I forget to turn it back on
Machine info:
WinXP SP2
Athlon 3200+
2GB RAM
Radeon X800 Pro
Thanks for any help with this,
AsimoX
Boss019
Reply #2 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:39 AM
Reply #2 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:39 AM
I don't know, tried mine and it spiked at 22% for about 4 seconds and then was loaded. Maybe try to uninstall and reinstall it, or someone may have the same problem. Good luck 
yrag
Reply #3 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:47 AM
Reply #3 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:47 AM
SDC/ Tools/ Settings/ Skins and Themes/ General: check 'Do not check for any skins updates'
Asimo
Reply #4 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:48 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:48 AM
I guess that I should have mentioned that it does it with or without McAfee running, just that *with* McAfee running it not only kills my CPU but it fights with McAfee while it's doing so.
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Reply #1 Thursday, June 9, 2005 12:37 AM