ok the msn item really causes troubles on my pc, my icon-cache gets reset randomly, windowsmessenger now uses 29mb of memory (before only 5-10), when using in combination with msn messenger 6.1, then hell brakes lose.
Anyone having this to?
Any suggestions?
i hope Moby reads this :
1) if windows messenger is NOT running, and you fire up Mobydock, then windows messenger will use 25-29MB of memory.
2) if windows messenger is running (in the background or whatever) and Mobydock isn't, then windows messenger uses 2-4MB of memory. After launching mobydock then, memory usage doesn't change.
So : windowsmessenger MUST be running, before mobydock runs, otherwise you lose approx 30Mb of system memory to it.
when using the msn itm, sometimes randomly iconcache resets ocour, which is verry annoying when you use Iconpackager. Have to rebuild the iconcache over and over.
MY WORKAROUNDS : (i prefer using msn 6.1 in stead of 4.7)
1) both messengers (winmessenger4.7 and msnmessenger6.1) have to load automaticly on windows startup, to assure minimal memory usage.
2) mobydock starts 10 seconds later (on windows startup with a startupmanager) to assure that winmessenger and msnmessenger are fully loaded, before starting Mobydock.
These two steps solve the memory problem, and for the iconcache problem, it seems that only the icons of the right pane in winxp startmenu (the pane with mydocs, mypc, printer, run, etc....) are getting reset in the iconcache of windows, so i mannually editted shell32.dll, netshell.dll and explorer.exe with reshacker and replaced the icons that got reset with custom ones that i like.
So, for now, everything seems fine, (due to my workarounds) but there are still some bugs left to investigate.
Otherwise (besides these two things) this is a great version.
Thx for the hard work,
Gersma
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