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cthorpe:
Oh, I almost forgot.  Here is my tray.



From left to right:

SnagIt 8 - Screen capture program (sorry mouser)
Wakoopa - Social software tracker.  See this thread.
Altiris SVS Trinket - Controls Altiris SVS (see my review of SVS)
TapTap Hotkey Extender - lets me trigger Find and Run Robot with a double tap of the Ctrl key (thanks mouser!)
ClipMate 7 - Clipboard manager (sorry again)
NoteZilla - Sticky note program.
Find and Run Robot - Best program launcher ever
Miranda IM - Multi-protocol messenger
Process Tamer - We know what this one does.  Makes working on my P3 866mhz machine bearable
Locate32 - Ultra fast file searches.  Reviewed here
AutoHotkey - Hotkeys, scripting, and more.  Check out Skrommel's One-Hour Software right here on DC for examples of what can be done with this program
Volume Control
Process Explorer - Task manager on steroids.  The first program I install when I work on a machine for the first time
NOD32 Anti-Virus - Lightweight and effective virus protection
UltraVNC - Remote control software.
FirstDefence-ISR - Automatic system recovery.  See my review at https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7189.  (note that Raxco is no longer selling this application.  I've provided the link to the developer of the technology behind the program.  There are other vendors of the program)
System Safety Monitor 2 (full version) - Controls processes, monitors registry changes, and generally keeps everything safe and secure
sTunnel - A small proxy that lets me encrypt arbitrary communications
Jetico Personal Firewall v 1 - Lightweight, highly configurable personal firewall

Curt:
Links to every program   :-*


But what are these arrows telling?

Curt:
Oh, I almost forgot.  Here is my tray.
From left to right:
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ClipMate 7 - Clipboard manager (sorry again)-cthorpe (May 11, 2007, 08:15 PM)
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The $35 ClipMate will be on sale at Bits du Jour at Thursday

cthorpe:
But what are these arrows telling?
-Curt (May 11, 2007, 08:42 PM)
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That just means that I've expanded my tray.  I usually have most of those icons hidden using XP's built in functionality.

Curt:
Process Explorer :-*  -f0dder (April 26, 2007, 05:48 PM)
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Do I dare to make a statement that will not be popular in this forum?
Ohh, my stomack is uneasy now, but here it comes:

"Process Explorer uses too much CPU" !!!


Well; now I have said it. Are you going to mock me? Stone me (if you could)?

When absolutely nothin is going on inside the PC, Process Explorer (PEx) will use some 4-5% CPU. This is by itself maybe a little too much, but not the real problem. But if you have PEx placed to start with Windows, as I used to have it, you can watch the most of the PC starting procedure and see how much CPU each program will use. And you can see how they all battle each other to have the little power most machines have available. And see how some programs still uses a lot of CPU after they seemed to have done opening, because they must configure or whatever. If you watch this procedure and then notice the CPU usage of PEx watching over them all, then you may understand my point: Normal machines with many programs cannot afford to have a program like Process Explorer being placed early in the starting procedure, because it uses some 25% CPU during the entire startup! There is no reason to give these 25% to PEx, because the program is really not needed during start, only after the procedure have finished - and you can hardly spare so much CPU at this crucial moment.

But there is more: Even when PEx is resting and using less than 5%, if you scroll the PEx window's tab up and down, the CPU usage will rise to 15-30%. Just to scroll the window!! If this had been any other program but Process Explorer we would have rejected it and called it names. Am I right, or am I right   not?

I still have Process Explorer placed in Start, but now I have placed it to start late, second last, and this has been very beneficial to the entire starting procedure!

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