[help] RK/XP issue -- Delay

Hi everybody,

I've got a frustrating problem. I'm running an XP MCE 2005 machine from dell. 160GB Hard drive, 3GB ram. Very smooth. I installed Flyakite 3 on the machine. works great. and I installed RK Launcher. which also worked great. Which means the animations are very quick and smooth -- i click on an icon on the RK bar and it immediately starts bouncing and brings up the program. However, every now and then if i install or uninstall a program or two, or even seemingly without changing anything, the RK animation and program launch will hiccup. meaning if i click on the icon on the RK bar it will become frozen for about 1.5 seconds before bouncing and launching the program. I know this seems nitpicky but it's a frustrating change after it's been working so well. And with 3gb RAM that is nowhere near being used up when this happens, I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing this delay. I reboot the machine and the delay still happens. everything else seems to work properly. The only way I've been able to fix it each time this happens is to do a system restore to earlier in the day or week. I've tried other docks when this delay is occurring with RK and get the same result. Short delay. I can't seem to find any rhyme or reason to this. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

#353049

I had a problem something like this one, In the settings I just turned off "Use margin hotspot" and then I checked "Never take focus". Don't know if that will help, all I can say is try it.

#353056

I had a problem something like this one, In the settings I just turned off "Use margin hotspot" and then I checked "Never take focus". Don't know if that will help, all I can say is try it.

Thanks, Trent. I'll give that a shot.

Anybody else have similar experience or other suggestions?

Thanks again.

#353059

Let me hazard a guess:

You wouldn't have noticed if the bouncing did not freeze but the app took 1,5 seconds longer to launch, right?

@RaduKing:

It can happen on the fastest machines and it does not seem to be a problem with RK - the operating system itself can grant itself a latch of this time before returning control from an app to get a launching process's dependencies sorted out and started.

Solution:

Disambiguate the animation from the thread that does the CreateProcess or ShellExecute call.

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