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Forums -> UltraMon™ -> Smart taskbar sloooooow - 2.1
Tom   2003-01-22 03:17
I'm using 2.1 and the smart taskbar is incredibly slow for me. I didn't see this with 2.0. When I hit a button it takes up to 5 seconds before switching, but if I manually click on a window the window switch is instantaneous.

Running Windows XP SP1 on a Dell 1.8 GHz machine. Here's what's running


Image Name            User Name            CPU    Mem Usage
AcroTray.exe TSimpson 00 2,604 K
Ad-watch.exe TSimpson 00 3,468 K
aim.exe TSimpson 00 9,112 K
Apache.exe SYSTEM 00 4,244 K
Apache.exe SYSTEM 00 6,952 K
avgcc32.exe TSimpson 00 4,680 K

avgserv.exe SYSTEM 00 1,384 K
cisvc.exe SYSTEM 00 336 K
csrss.exe SYSTEM 00 3,912 K
daemon.exe TSimpson 00 3,816 K
Dreamweaver.exe TSimpson 00 3,980 K
EM_EXEC.EXE TSimpson 00 4,040 K
Eudora.exe TSimpson 00 9,792 K
explorer.exe TSimpson 02 24,532 K
fsshd2.exe SYSTEM 00 4,096 K
GKCDTDNSNT.exe SYSTEM 00 2,788 K
ImageFox.exe TSimpson 00 3,740 K
KOOKIE.EXE TSimpson 00 3,452 K
lsass.exe SYSTEM 00 1,264 K

MACVNTFY.EXE TSimpson 00 4,232 K
nvsvc32.exe SYSTEM 00 1,924 K
opera.exe TSimpson 00 27,824 K
PGPsdkServ.exe SYSTEM 00 2,276 K
PGPtray.exe TSimpson 00 6,908 K
pm.exe TSimpson 00 10,612 K
services.exe SYSTEM 00 3,016 K
smss.exe SYSTEM 00 352 K
SnagIt32.exe TSimpson 65 4,836 K
spoolsv.exe SYSTEM 00 6,176 K
svchost.exe SYSTEM 00 2,936 K
svchost.exe SYSTEM 00 21,200 K
svchost.exe SYSTEM 00 2,568 K

svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE 00 1,788 K
svchost.exe LOCAL SERVICE 00 3,580 K
System SYSTEM 00 232 K
System Idle Process SYSTEM 00 20 K
taskmgr.exe TSimpson 03 5,164 K
UltraMon.exe TSimpson 00 4,456 K
UltraMonTaskbar.... TSimpson 00 5,148 K
vmnat.exe SYSTEM 00 1,788 K
VMnetDHCP.exe SYSTEM 00 1,488 K
vmware.exe TSimpson 29 38,456 K
vmware-authd.exe SYSTEM 00 1,432 K
WinKey.exe TSimpson 00 4,608 K
winlogon.exe SYSTEM 01 3,728 K

XPTRYICN.EXE TSimpson 00 3,180 K
Christian Studer   2003-01-22 03:23
Try if adjusting the process priority fixes the problem, see this thread for details.

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
Tom   2003-01-22 03:28
... I should mention I get the slowdown when VMWare isn't running, just happened to have it open when I snagged the text from the process list...
Tom   2003-01-22 03:32
That fixed it!

I didn't have the entry for Process Priorty, so I had to create a new DWORD value for it set to zero.
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