Kenny 2006-01-18 04:16
Sorry posted before on the beta forum by mistake...
This has been frustrating for a long time...
I could not understand why my computer would freeze for about a minute whenever I turned on the Windows Media Player toolbar and minimized that application. I would make my computer non responsive until it was able to finally display the WMP mini toolbar on the taskbar. I posted to the Microsoft newsgroups but no one seemed to have any idea, I tried google many times but with no luck.. Finaly I tried turning off ULTRAMON and the WMP toolbar appeared with no delay at all! What is causing this.. can I do something so I can fix the problem????
I am using ultra mon 2.6. When I turn off the second taskbar (smart taskbar) the problem goes away. But when I have it on, the problem occured despite on what monitor I have WINDPOS MEDIA PLAYER. Please advise....
The person has the same problem:
http://realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?Topic=2967&tmpl=UltraMon
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Christian Studer 2006-01-18 10:43
Unfortunately I don't know what might cause this, I also can't reproduce this issue.
I tested with UltraMon 2.6 and WMP 10 on Windows XP SP2. WMP was using the default skin and was running in full mode.
If you use different settings or a different version of Windows, let me know and I'll look into it.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Kenny 2006-01-18 17:14
Hello... the strange thing is that it does not happen immediately.. say you minimize and maximize WMP 10 times.. it starts happening the eighth!
Sometimes you have to load a song and then it happens. Its strange.
All I can see from the task managers I have is that explorer.exe goes to 100% for a minute perhaps more...sometimes the freeze is so bad I
have to terminate the WMP process to get the PC unstuck.
If I turned off the smart taskbar, it works.
But this is not on this machine alone and this installation I had tried on other machines some time ago and there was the same problem. I am sure there is a problem.
But the hard part was finding out that Ultramon was causing the delay. I thought it was a bug in WMP so I was looking for that.
My computer has WMP10 and XPSP2.
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Christian Studer 2006-01-19 09:20
What process priority are you using for the Smart Taskbar?
This option is under UltraMon Options > Smart Taskbar.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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