Unfortunately, my QSO with HP1 tonight was interrupted by numerous pauses, making me feel like I was learning morse code again. Which I might actually be doing, to tell the truth.
Another examination of the Task Manager showed the Firefox 4 32-bit executable doing battle with the Firefox add-on container executable for top spot in the CPU usage list. This might be because there is an issue with Firefox *32 under Windows 7 64-bit that is exaggerated by the use of these add-ons on the QRZ.com web pages, which I use as my home page in the shack. I went into the Help menu of Firefox and disabled add-ons and the test (under full power) seemed to show the lag/pause was gone. Only real operating will prove that. More later. I want to say that with each item I have removed, from Aero Themes, to MSFT Office doc caches, to Adobe Startup executables, the system has become more responsive. The fact I now have voice announcements in the shack (rather than keying the radio) is a major plus. Now all I have to do is get the pause outa here. I have asked a friend who is active on the Firefox development forums to let me know if they hear something about the add-on container and Windows 7 64-bit. 73, Byron On 06/05/2011 07:45 PM, Byron Peebles wrote: > Friends: > > Using the Task Manager and the Configuration Manager resource > mentioned in the previous post, I am feeling better about eliminating > the problems I was experiencing with my Windows 7 Ultimate system and > DX4WIN. > > First, the change from the Display Windows Manager (dwm.exe) from Aero > to Classic themes seems to have made the windows faster. As I > continued to look for anything that used more resources than DX4WIN, I > also removed a Microsoft Office utility that is for shared document > caching. It seems like the Install script for Office adds that to > your Startup programs and I will never share an Office document from > this computer. then, two Adobe Acrobat products installed themselves > to make my PDF reading faster in some way and they are now not part of > the system startup and background processes. When these changes are > combined, the system behaves better, at least so far. > > Second, I found a configuration error in the system that had really > bad side effects. When I was attempting to get the MMTTY RTTY > software working, I have set the audio output device to default to my > Ten-Tec 712 USB-Sound-Card Interface. I had also set the Mic input to > PTT on the Ten-Tec radio. The result of this mistake is that my > system sounds, startup, spots, etc were being routed to the radio, not > the speakers, and were keying the radio. Not at all a good thing, > since I have to assume those sounds could be heard, even though I set > the radio to one watt output when I'm not in QSO, just in case. > > So, one set of changes to minimize overheads on the combined CPU/GPU > of a low-end, low-power motherboard and a secon change to reverse a > bonehead configuration mistake that I made in a last-ditch effort to > make something unrelated to DX4WIN work. > > Again, time is the real measure of resolution, so I'll give it a week > or two of active CW work to see if this is truly resolve. > > 73, Byron > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
