Well, it was there to help people understand what happens if the CPU has heavy load
But you can just right-click the TeaTimer icon, there's an option to show or not show them there
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There is a beta t-timer 1.6.1 included with today's update
give it a try
see also
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=44
Last edited by wyrmrider; 2008-08-06 at 18:47.
Perfect! I'll give those suggestions a try.
I kinda figured it was to explain the cpu load (make people understand system hesitations) but, it comes up quite often and with a good sound system it comes up with force.
Thanks guys.
Patrick,
On my old PII 400 w/Windows 2000 the beta Teatimer causes much less processor overhead during a normal startup as I'd mentioned in the other beta thread. However, when the balloons are enabled on that same PC, it takes several minutes to complete the startup display, even though there isn't really any significant processor usage after the first few seconds.
What I'm thinking is that you've fixed the real problem of several minutes high processor utilization, but created a new one for everyone by having the balloons enabled by default, especially due to the balloon timeout issue.
My suggestion is to disable the balloons by default, since it's really a troubleshooting tool anyway and not really useful for regular day-to-day usage. Another possibility might be to display only a "Teatimer Starting" followed by a "Teatimer Startup Completed" by default, since this would reduce the delay effects. How to switch between all three options would become the issue in this case.
Bitman