TeaTimer CPU load after startup thoughts

[kdd53]

hello,
i'm new to the forum and i've been doing some upgrading to a friend's computer. it's a p2 350 with 1 gb ram and xp pro. i have noticed that tt in sb v160 runs the cpu at 100%. the system goes back to "normal" when i turn tt off.

i have v160 installed on a celeron 2.4ghz 2gb ram and a hp laptop with a 2ghz athlon 64 and 2gb ram both with xp pro and have no problem with the cpu sticking at 100%.

i have read the replies on this thread and have not found a solution. my friend is not very computer savy and i am beginning to think that disabling tt wouldn't be such a bad idea.

i certainly want them to have a good computering experience without having them making decisions about registry changes that they would know nothing about.

am i wrong in my thinking and is there a cure for this malady?

[Yodama]

129260,

thanks for your feedback. I think we have to watch this behavior to see if it occurs again.
Did you disable the balloon tool tips within Windows? You can check this in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advacned
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

This would have the tool tips disabled completely, setting the dword to 1 will reenable the balloon tips (restart of the explorer is required). By default this value is not set.


kdd53,

once the teatimer starts it will scan the running processes, this will cause a cpu load depending on how many processes are present, on an older computer like the p2@350 and WinXP this will take a while.
The current beta of the teatimer will show that it scans with a balloon tip and it will improve on scanning time through caching. This way there will be one long scan for processes but subsequent scans will be quicker.
Download:
TeaTimer-beta-1.6.1.21.zip

[wyrmrider]

A beta t-teimer 1.6.1 is included in today's update

[129260]

Because other programs are able to give me notification balloons. such as windows defender. It doesn't do any notification balloons on my laptop ether. Same thing applies. This is weird.......cause i have never seen teatimer give me a notification balloon so far, and other programs are able to give me the notification balloons.......

Thanks for the help yodama, feel free to ask more questions. Hopefully we can figure this out!

[drragostea]

I've attempted to download the beta updates and it was successful.

I heard there was v.1.6.0.31?

My TeaTimer is: v.1.6.1.22

The CPU usage is 0% at the moment, but it was 50% CPU during the few minutes about the installation of TeaTimer beta.

However, what concerns me is that TeaTimer is still using 43MB of memory as compared to 14MB when it was first installed.

Thoughts?

[Yodama]

129260,

please check these registry locations:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Safer Networking Limited\SpybotSnD]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Spybot - Search & Destroy\"

if you installed Spybot S&D to a different directory that path need to be adjusted.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Safer Networking Limited\SpybotSnD\TeaTimer]
"ShowInfoBalloons"=dword:00000001

this is the setting for active balloon tips for the teatimer, this can be switched on (1) an off (0) with the context menu of the teatimer tray icon.


drragostea,

43 MB is normal for Teatimer 1.6 on a Windows XP system, when did you get 14 MB?

[gagliaudo]

129260,

thanks for your feedback. I think we have to watch this behavior to see if it occurs again.
Did you disable the balloon tool tips within Windows? You can check this in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advacned
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

This would have the tool tips disabled completely, setting the dword to 1 will reenable the balloon tips (restart of the explorer is required). By default this value is not set.


kdd53,

once the teatimer starts it will scan the running processes, this will cause a cpu load depending on how many processes are present, on an older computer like the p2@350 and WinXP this will take a while.
The current beta of the teatimer will show that it scans with a balloon tip and it will improve on scanning time through caching. This way there will be one long scan for processes but subsequent scans will be quicker.
Download:
TeaTimer-beta-1.6.1.21.zip

Dear Yodama,
I have Spybot S&D 1.6.0.30;
my Teatimer situation is the following:
[IMG]chrome://deimageshack/skin/is_banner.png[/IMG]

Is there a way to "improve" the value related to Utilizzo della Memoria (Memory Usage)?
Maybe installing the beta version of Teatimer ?
and with what kind of configuration (what "scanmode")?
Thanks a lot for an answer !!!
Bye bye ! Paolo

[Yodama]

hello gagliaudo,

please apply one of the 2 .reg files attached to this post.
Then restart Teatimer , your memory usage for Teatimer should then be about 43 MB.

Teatimer-conserve_memory.reg
looks like this:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Safer Networking Limited\Tweaks]
"ConserveMemory"=dword:00000001

your current data is most likely "dword:00000000" which makes Teatimer a bit faster but more memory consuming.

Teatimer-scanmode_default.reg
looks like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Safer Networking Limited\Tweaks]
"ConserveMemory"=-

this removes the setting for ConserveMemory and restores the default for Teatimer which is actually conserving memory.

[gagliaudo]

hello gagliaudo,

please apply one of the 2 .reg files attached to this post.
Then restart Teatimer , your memory usage for Teatimer should then be about 43 MB.

Teatimer-conserve_memory.reg
looks like this:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Safer Networking Limited\Tweaks]
"ConserveMemory"=dword:00000001

your current data is most likely "dword:00000000" which makes Teatimer a bit faster but more memory consuming.

Teatimer-scanmode_default.reg
looks like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Safer Networking Limited\Tweaks]
"ConserveMemory"=-

this removes the setting for ConserveMemory and restores the default for Teatimer which is actually conserving memory.

Dear Yodama, I have applied the first reg and ... success!!!
Memory Usage 43.320 KB
Thanks a lot !!!

[wyrmrider]

Drrago good buddy
Is not your version LATER than the other you mention
did you just download a big file or something to have that large footprint?
Is it still there?