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ProcessTamer / Here's a stubborn program

« on: October 31, 2005, 04:37 PM »

Mouser, you were asking about stubborn programs... I've noticed that SystemSuite 6 does not get tamed even when it hogs most of the CPU. Unfortunately, this a commercial app that doesn't have any free previews (I think), so you'll have to buy it if you don't already have it.  www.v-com.com

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ProcessTamer / Process Tamer affecting Internet connection?

« on: October 31, 2005, 04:13 PM »

The following are just seat-of-the-pants observations right now...

I've been using PT for a while and I've noticed that when an app is tamed/untamed while it's downloading a large file,  the download speed appears to fluctuate up and down quite a bit. I use Net Meter and I can see  the download speed and consistency. A solid red band indicates a smooth download, while spiky lines shows d/l speeds going up and down. It's this latter that I usually see when P/T kicks in.

I know it's only circumstantial evidence so far. I have since disabled P/T and I haven't noticed any "spiky" downloads yet.

Has anyone else observed similar behaviour?

Mouser, can the process of jacking up/down an app's priority cause connection speeds to vary?

Many thanks.
Carl

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Find And Run Robot / Location path broken in 1.07.12

« on: September 23, 2005, 02:04 PM »

I just installed F&R Robot 1.07.12 over my 1.06 version. Everything seems to work, except my "Location" display seems to be stuck on "Full path"...selecting any of the other options does not work! (Yeah, I'm the one who has been harping about the path displays...and just when I found one I liked! )

I did not uninstall my previous version first--should I have?

Thanks.
Carl

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Find And Run Robot / Suggestion for Find & Run Robot

« on: September 22, 2005, 06:36 PM »

Find & Run Robot is easily the slickest, most useful little app I've downloaded in a long time. It works almost exactly how I want it to. But it has one irritating point: when I add additional directories to the list of folders to be searched, the search results box simply shows "\" under the Location column for stuff found in my additional directories.

For example, I keep my web downloads in a "C:\Downloads" folder. I add that folder to F&R Robot for its searches. When I do a search that includes hits from "C:\Downloads", the search results box shows "\" as the location. Can you fix it so that is shows "\Downloads" instead? That would be much more useful!

Thanks.
Carl

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ProcessTamer / Access violation in Process Tamer

« on: September 22, 2005, 04:58 PM »

I've been running Process Tamer for a couple of weeks and everything seemed to work normally. Then suddenly today all hell broke loose--I got the message:

Access violation at address 0045E9C8 in module 'ProcessTamerConfigurator.exe'. Read of address 74617285

Windows spit out one of these messages every half second---I was clicking 'OK' like mad to close them--but more would reappear like the deranged brooms in that Mickey Mouse cartoon (Fantasia?). Eventually I was able to bring up Task Manager and kill off the Process Tamer process. All the messages then disappeared and I was able to continue working normally, without having to reboot.

I had a variety of apps running at the time--too many to list--Outlook, Framemaker, etc. But I always have those apps running anyway. One slight clue might be that I had Microsoft Antispyware running a scan at the time and I had Process Tamer open so that I could see the CPU usage. Otherwise, my h/w is pretty standard: P4 3GHz, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro, SP2.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Carl Lum