Tihiy

In RP9, you can run "rundll32 ktm8,Shutdown", although i wouldn't recommend you to.

That's right, RPConfig is not photo gallery manager. It will seriously slow down after 10-20 wallpapers, especially high resolution ones; speed depends more on hard disk, not CPU. I'm considering fixing this, but not that much... That's nice suggestion. Also nice, but i don't imagine a good mockup.

That's a bug in main.cpl (all versions). You can't work it around, it has to be patched...Or wait, i just was struck with idea! I'll provide a cpl which will mirror main.cpl, and main.cpl would be hidden from Control Panel.

Not fair to spoil exectations, but i'm here again with some news. New USER salvation is delayed due to my work on KernelEx 4 (finally) as well as other busy things. The news, i've figured out how to theoretically implement GDI heap expander without breaking compatibility, performance and memory usage. This includes a lot of things to hax: global memory manager, local heap handle manager and GDI insides, but seems possible unless I bump into hard compatibility problems. But theoretically, it can be very-very promising; i won't spoil numbers. Or did rloew already implemented one?

%windir% is not set until windows boots, and i believe it's proper behavior. Use %winbootdir%.

What's wrong with providing cpl file icons?Can you remove this abomination from RP9 thread?

eidenk, unless you use window skin, there is no differences in resource usage - since i know how to not use resources. You may want to cut RP9.1 into bare-bone by using only RP8.dll (deleting shl8.dll, uberhack.exe), but note, i'm about to change component dependencies.

No, i can't since those programs are not developed anymore. But when could it be useful?

IE - based ones, for sure. Unlikely for others. Is there browsing scenario which eats a lot of USER (except opening lots and lots of pages)?

Yes. Most GUI programs.

I'm unable to help. There is a guide to remove RP7, but it requires a lot of skills and time.

I'm pleased to announce that future Revolutions Pack 9 version will include technology which will greatly reduce USER resource usage in common scenarios. After your reports and my research i found a big hole in USER heap which i'm able to plug. Hole I found is in the design of list and combo box controls built in USER subsystem which consume a lot of space in 64K heap. The issue is so bad that any application that uses list/combo boxes makes easily noticeable impact. Less than 300 combobox windows can be created on pure system (while global windows limit should be 16000). To solve this issue, combo and list boxes had to be completely rewritten. That was hard task (on which i worked on for long time), but it's near finishing. 'Beta' version is kinda ready, but there are known compatibility problems and RP9 re-architecting tasks to be done. Test numbers: My unscientific 'Load 3 ImgBurn copies' test shows 65% USER free up from 39%. If you're interested in your scenario, i'm ready to test it.

This has nothing to do with sysmon version, really. It's a bug in performance measurement in 9x. Every application which uses registry CPU usage data can suffer from this.

You haven't provided any proof there is a problem. I can't trust sysmon which is often starts giving high CPU usage. If you say problem is apparent, then prove me how do you notice high CPU load - is there sluggishness or problems with multi-tasking or sound playing or what?Also: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/227131

My debug builds of course had this feature. Maybe I would publish them.Now i'm busy with long-secret feature, which I hope will find way to RP9. Stay tuned.

That's not a bug. It means display DC got swapped and RP9 unswapped it. It's kinda debug rare thing; it'll be removed.

^^ Both those suggestions are invalid. RP9 is no longer dependant on display mode or Shell Icon BPP (they have to be >=16).

It's NOT RP related.ClearType can't affect other RP functionality. Care to find me Groupwise d/l link again?

Sure strange it is. I'm pretty sure it's somehow related to ME files... or registry fails to write itself? No idea... Maybe file got deleted? Try custom RP install and check 32-bit icons set. No.

You can use MDCU or install English version.

Well, ask MDGx to update his pack.

If i could return to 2001.

Aha. No. However, you can spread Win98 and help others.I've updated updates page. Could it be better?

Autoruns does.

Uninstall and compare. I do believe it's a mistake.