Sidebar using 50% cpu

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?

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

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"Morey" <Morey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FE314875-0C46-4A63-ACD5-8F09576BBC7A@microsoft.com...
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?

"Morey" <Morey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE314875-0C46-4A63-ACD5-8F09576BBC7A@microsoft.com...
> 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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On Thu, 22 May 2008 19:29:53 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:

>"Morey" <Morey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:FE314875-0C46-4A63-ACD5-8F09576BBC7A@microsoft.com...
>> 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!

Morey wrote:
> 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

Adam Albright wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2008 19:29:53 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"
> <mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:
>
>> "Morey" <Morey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:FE314875-0C46-4A63-ACD5-8F09576BBC7A@microsoft.com...
>>> 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!
>

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.