[Shadow-X-]

Hey, I dunno if this happens on other people's computers , but I tested this on my friend's computer and laptops at stores, and it didn't seem to occur at all. I am using WinXP Pro btw.

Try this:
- press alt/ctrl/del to bring up task manager
- click on the performance tab
- now watch the CPU Usage meter, it should be pretty low if you've got relatively no proggies running, and are doing something idle (such as posting in the forum, I am at 6~11% usage at this time)
- click on the title bar and move the Windows Task Manager randomly around the screen, very quickly.

For some odd reason, the CPU usage during this time fluxuates upto
99%~100% all the time for me, when in reality, this relatively simple process should take little cpu power. Am I wrong?


My PC:
P3 450mhz
640 megs ram
WinXP Pro/Win 98 v2 partition (Win 98 on my C
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[[Shizo]]

Windows is made by Microsoft

[DrunkenMoNk]

Well... it's more than Windows, it's Linux too... window redraw is a cpu intensive task, I know Mac's dump alot of that stuff to the video card and have realtime redraw, but outside of that every other operating system has problems with that.

It is fun though that some simple tasks like window redraw cause such usage, makes you wonder how much faster cpu's have to become to overcome simple hurdles like that .

[dr . bang]

ctr-alt-delete

if explorer.exe is using all the cpu power, close it.

Then go to File, newtask, Run, and type explorer.exe
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[DrunkenMoNk]

Closing explorer.exe is not going to do anything, it's an OS issue and is a problem with any window manager that shows the windows contents while it is moving.

It's not something you can fix, and quite frankly you shouldn't care much about it. 9x out of 10 your doing nothing incredibly cpu intensive while manipulating windows, and if you simply turn off this feature in your display settings the problem goes away.

[[Shizo]]

I think the best way to fix it is to uncheck "show window content while dragging"

[ReAktor]

[lalPOOO]

well it could be because your running xp on a 450?

maybe you should try 2k or somthing ment for a computer that fast.

[faB]

It could be because we're not running AMIGA's anymore, what a shame.

Nowadays we have FULLY WINDOWS/XP ENHANCED NVidia drivers on our killer GForce 4 but it still takes longer than my 7mhz Amiga 500 & 'Workbench' to move a window.

Aaah nostalgy..
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[Shadow-X-]

you want nostalgia? Remember the old school bat man tv show?
Pow! Wham! BONK!

I was watching some teenage mutant ninja turtles with my friends on my one friend's computer, and was seriously thinking "How the hell did this show ever entertain me?" I mean really, the dialogue was soo blocky and slow, and the reactions were so typical, and April the newscaster...... whoa....... soo much more implications on her character now that we're a little bit older....... but it was still good nonetheless. Now THAT's nostalgic.
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[DrunkenMoNk]

OSX handles window redraw amazingly-regardless of the application-it's practically real-time.

Oh, and on the topic of old school cartoons Transformers still rules . I still remember wondering how Megatron would make that impossible transformation into a pistol, man that just brings back memories .

[ReAktor]

Do you remember that Transformers movie? With Leonard Nimoy as Megatron...

I think I will put my old VCR online and watch this one. ;D
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