06-03-2011, 10:36 PM -
I bought True Launch Bar based on the description from BitsDuJour yesterday - It sounded exactly what I had been looking for!
Spend a while yesterday setting it all up and replacing the dock that I had been using previously. Very happy with it too.
...Apart from one thing.....
My laptop is noticeably slower now.
I have set up seven menus only. Each points to a virtual folder with between 3 and 19 items. No gadgets. Nothing else just menus.
I first noticed the slowdown when I was editing a document after setting it all up. Closer investigation shows cpu running high mostly because of explorer.exe consuming up to 49% CPU.
So I uninstalled and rebooted. Explorer.exe was then examined and found to be peaking at about 8% CPU.
I re-installed and restored my menus and I'm back to (up to 49%) CPU - with some slowdown.
My laptop is a T400 Lenovo Thinkpad.
I really like TLB and want to adopt it as my chosen launcher, I think Tordex (Yuri?) has done a bang up job with the software, but the high CPU is a real problem.
Would be grateful for any advice. Thanks.
Regards,
Stuart
PS - Just as an afterthought I suppose I should really:-
1. Uninstall & Reboot.
2. Reinstall TLB (Monitor CPU )
3. Restore Menus one at a time while monitoring to see if any one of them is causing it.
Will try that today.
Spend a while yesterday setting it all up and replacing the dock that I had been using previously. Very happy with it too.
...Apart from one thing.....
My laptop is noticeably slower now.
I have set up seven menus only. Each points to a virtual folder with between 3 and 19 items. No gadgets. Nothing else just menus.
I first noticed the slowdown when I was editing a document after setting it all up. Closer investigation shows cpu running high mostly because of explorer.exe consuming up to 49% CPU.
So I uninstalled and rebooted. Explorer.exe was then examined and found to be peaking at about 8% CPU.
I re-installed and restored my menus and I'm back to (up to 49%) CPU - with some slowdown.
My laptop is a T400 Lenovo Thinkpad.
I really like TLB and want to adopt it as my chosen launcher, I think Tordex (Yuri?) has done a bang up job with the software, but the high CPU is a real problem.
Would be grateful for any advice. Thanks.
Regards,
Stuart
PS - Just as an afterthought I suppose I should really:-
1. Uninstall & Reboot.
2. Reinstall TLB (Monitor CPU )
3. Restore Menus one at a time while monitoring to see if any one of them is causing it.
Will try that today.