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Living Room / Re: Looking for a newsgroup news reader

« on: May 29, 2009, 12:07 PM »

I've been extremely happy with Xananews for years.  Clean and configurable.  Written in Delphi and free, BTW. 
Also has server product, I believe.

http://www.wilsonc.d...n.co.uk/xananews.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: WTF utility??

« on: September 14, 2007, 11:19 AM »

Thanks, Mouser. 

Actually I do use process tamer (which is a terrific tool), but it did not give an indicator (or log data) of any suspect process or programs in these cases.  Perhaps it may have been a combination of issues I do not understand or in one case the offending program may just have hijacked the mouse driver.  I'll play with it some more.  BTW, PT has resolved a number of nagging issues for me.  Something I did not do is run PT high priority.

Cheers,  Ron

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General Software Discussion / WTF utility??

« on: September 13, 2007, 05:35 PM »

I was wondering if anyone can recommend a utility that could easily let me know when some program or process takes over a machine.

For example, I was at a client site and unbeknownst to me or the client, something slowed things down to below a crawl.  In fact, the client said this happens periodically and they end up rebooting.  I explained it was not a good idea and that something was running in the background to the detriment of anything else.  In this case it was a Quickbooks POS background download, but it could have been anything.  There was no obvious notification that this was happening (other than broadband activity).

On my development system, I had a recurring issue that completely tied up my mouse cursor.  I was dead in the water for as much as 30 minutes several times a day.  It went away after I removed the disk backup agent software. 

I wish there was some type of WTF (what the f---???) key for this purpose in Windows.  Does anyone know of anything better than using task manager to identify ill-behaved software?