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Morey - 22 May 2008 22:49 GMT

Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and back
to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?

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Carey Frisch [MVP] - 23 May 2008 00:06 GMT

Do you have the "Feed Headlines" gadget running? If so,
it is checking and updating itself.

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Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and back
to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?

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Mike Hall - MVP - 23 May 2008 00:29 GMT

> Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and
> back
> to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?

Any gadget which updates itself every few seconds or minutes will take a
toll on performance..

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Adam Albright - 23 May 2008 00:46 GMT

>> Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and
>> back
>> to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?
>
>Any gadget which updates itself every few seconds or minutes will take a
>toll on performance..

Any stupid Microsoft crap maybe. Takes 50% CPU? That's nuts. For
example I have a weather bug that constantly updates itself, I also
have a Internet monitor that shows performance relative to download
speed and a couple others real time gadgets. Guess what, all together
will all the other overhead CPU meter (another gadget) is showing just
2% used with a spike once in awhile to 18%.

Lets face it. When it comes to writing software, Microsoft sucks.

Just for fun I pulled up Task Manager. I went to the Processes tab,
sorted by highest memory use. No surprise what the hogs are:

iexploter.exe 51,144K
explorer.exe (1) 20,740K
explorer.exe (2) 12,200K
sidebar 11,508K

I repeat.. Microsoft doesn't have a clue HOW to write good, tight
memory efficient code. There own Task Manager confirms it.

ROTFLMAO!

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Vista - 24 May 2008 14:19 GMT

>>> Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and
>>> back
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>
> ROTFLMAO!

When did you become a programmer? You no more know what you're talking
about than a man in the Moon. Man, you are pitiful just pitiful.

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gls858 - 23 May 2008 15:14 GMT

> Sidebar has recently started using 50% + CPU. It runs from 0 to 50+ and back
> to 0 and back to 50+ and just keeps doing this. What would cause that?

IMO the sidebar is a useless resource hog. I turned it off about 5
minutes after I installed Vista.

gls858

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