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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WhyReboot?
« on: December 22, 2006, 10:20 AM »How about adding something to the program that warns,"Warning: You've managed to get a ton of programs hanging in memory that probably shouldn't be there and eating memory and disk cache. Your computer will keep getting slower until you do a restart!"
But seriously, any way to add something that could check for the issues that cause this type of slowdown?
Maybe a baseline at startup, and then warn when some limit is reached?
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Am I being silly?-springro (December 21, 2006, 03:13 PM)
No, I don't think you are being silly in wanting something like this. I'm not sure it fits the 'mission' of WhyReboot - that is, to tell you if an installer really did do something that justifies a reboot. (Perhaps I mis-named WhyReboot...) Anyway, I'll consider the feature request.
In my experience, there's no need for an external utility to tell me that there are too many apps running - I just hit ctrl-shift-esc to bring up the task manager, look at the process list (configured to show the VM size and other memory items - see attached screen snapshot). Then, from that view, you can terminate apps that are taking up too much memory.
This is another subject that I've written about - the sheer arrogance of software providers adding junk to your startup lists and taskbar tray thus bringing even the most powerful machines to a crawl. I've written a simple command line utility (XP or Windows 2003 server only at present) that scans the system tray and tells you what's running there, and the name/location of the .exe file behind it.
More later...
