08-22-2009, 03:28 AM -
I don't suppose this behaviour is connected with the occasional freezing when there are no remote items in Recent Items, but I just found that if Recent Items contains items on a LAN-connected computer that's switched off, the Recent Items pop-up freezes, but only on alternate appearances.
I could repeat the following procedure as often as I wanted with XP. Recent Items (in TLB Quick Launch bar) contained three items referring to jpg files on another computer that's often on the LAN but was switched off, plus about 20 other local items. At the beginning, User Object/GDI Objects in Task Manager showed as 442/1043.
Step 1. Mouse onto Recent Items and then to Desktop. Pop-up appears and goes away again as normal. User/GDI is 446/1043 while pop-up on-screen and is 443/1043 when pop-up goes away.
Step 2. Repeat Step 1. Pop-up appears again but freezes. User/GDI becomes 445/1043.
Step 3. Bump mouse to left of screen to open a pop-up toolbar. It won’t open and cursor becomes a horizontal double-ended arrow. Move mouse back to empty desktop. Cursor remains as horizontal double-ended arrow.
Step 4. After about 17 sec cursor changes to normal arrow and User/GDI changes to 446/1043. About 0.5s later the Recent Items pop-up closes and User/GDI goes to 442/1043.
Step 5. Go back to Step 1 and repeat.
If I missed out Step 2 and just waited, I found that after 18s User/GDI spontaneously reverted back to 442/1043, after which the next pop-up didn't freeze.
To prove that this type of freeze was because of inaccessible LAN items I switched on the remote computer. After that the pop-up no longer froze on alternate appearances.
I suppose the 18 second period is Windows timing out while checking inaccessible links. But it would be nicer if all other TLB toolbars didn't freeze in the meantime.
I could repeat the following procedure as often as I wanted with XP. Recent Items (in TLB Quick Launch bar) contained three items referring to jpg files on another computer that's often on the LAN but was switched off, plus about 20 other local items. At the beginning, User Object/GDI Objects in Task Manager showed as 442/1043.
Step 1. Mouse onto Recent Items and then to Desktop. Pop-up appears and goes away again as normal. User/GDI is 446/1043 while pop-up on-screen and is 443/1043 when pop-up goes away.
Step 2. Repeat Step 1. Pop-up appears again but freezes. User/GDI becomes 445/1043.
Step 3. Bump mouse to left of screen to open a pop-up toolbar. It won’t open and cursor becomes a horizontal double-ended arrow. Move mouse back to empty desktop. Cursor remains as horizontal double-ended arrow.
Step 4. After about 17 sec cursor changes to normal arrow and User/GDI changes to 446/1043. About 0.5s later the Recent Items pop-up closes and User/GDI goes to 442/1043.
Step 5. Go back to Step 1 and repeat.
If I missed out Step 2 and just waited, I found that after 18s User/GDI spontaneously reverted back to 442/1043, after which the next pop-up didn't freeze.
To prove that this type of freeze was because of inaccessible LAN items I switched on the remote computer. After that the pop-up no longer froze on alternate appearances.
I suppose the 18 second period is Windows timing out while checking inaccessible links. But it would be nicer if all other TLB toolbars didn't freeze in the meantime.