Performance issues with 009

Monday, December 26, 2005 by Hammy | Discussion: WindowBlinds

After updating to 009 my PC is very slow to load or unload WB and applying different themes. I also noticed that my ram usage has gone way up. If I unload WB, my taskbar and user pane is black. I have never had a hacked version of WB on my box either.
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Lantec
Reply #1 Monday, December 26, 2005 2:05 PM
It's a Beta version. Best thing would be post all the information you can on your machine and include the text on the System Information panel from the Windowblinds Configuration window. Then roll back to whichever previous version worked best for you.
Screenshots help as well.

Hammy
Reply #2 Monday, December 26, 2005 2:40 PM
UPDATE:
I started uninstalling all the newest stuff on the PC untill performance came back. Turns out that the Philips drivers for my new MP3 player was the culprit. I'm gonna reinstall McAfee Firewall and Virusscan now, then reinstall 009. Wish me luck!

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Hammy
Reply #3 Monday, December 26, 2005 3:34 PM
McAfee and 009 are installed now and all is fine!

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dwax
Reply #4 Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:17 PM
Is there more thaen one person that when changing skins,it takes a long time? It's like it just hangs there for a lng time.
My system: Emachine T6520
Windows XP Media Center
3400+ AMD Athlon 64 2.40GHZ 1600MHZ FSB
1024MB Ram
Radeon Xpress200 latest drivers

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to MSI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series

Wblind.dll 2005/12/20 22:41:38
Wbsrv.dll 2005/12/20 22:57:44
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2005/12/21 00:04:40
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

Neil Banfield
Reply #5 Tuesday, December 27, 2005 2:51 PM
If theme changing takes a long time, it usually means there is an app on the PC thats hung.

dwax
Reply #6 Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:09 PM
I think it's IconX I unloaded IconX and tried to load another skin and it was much faster.

PurrBall
Reply #7 Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:22 PM
Yes, sometimes it shows "Please Wait" and never goes away, but I can gwet to the logon screen fine.

Meowy's Fix: Reboot.

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