Ive been noticing my computer slowing down doing a lot of pretty basic things recently. Things like doing a Save As in Paint Shop Pro, navigating in FF and various things in my programming development environments (Delphi & VS.NET) were slowly driving me mad.
Now, my PC is pretty high end (Dual Xeon 2.8, 2 gig ram, NVidia 6800GT video, 10k rpm hds), but I was getting tired of the slowdowns and seriously considering whether it was time to reformat and reinstall or just upgrade the MB to something faster (dual core AMD's???).
Anyway - what finally broke the camel's back was a program Im writing. The process of filling in a button bar and creating 10 buttons was taking 11 seconds!!! This was just nuts. So I raised a support incident with the the component developer. In the process of this, I put together a demo program to demonstrate the problem. When I uploaded to my server, I decided to test it out to make sure it would work. Well, lo and behold - the test process ran in .2 seconds - on a Dual Pentium II-400 machine no less.
After much investigation, I determined that OD was the culprit. OD in general slows down the process quite a bit. Specifically if Ive got a dock showing the System Tray components, ALL of my other applications slow WAY down.
I see there have been other problems with performance using OD - here's a tip - get rid of the system tray docks.
Stardock - can you address this performance issue? If I shut down OD completely, my system speeds up immensely. This is really no good at all as I love OD - just not if its going to make everything else crawl...
khariV
