Taskbar Shuffle problem?

I downloaded Taskbar Shuffle 2.5. Main reason why I chose that over some other programs is that it supports Windows 2000. But after running it on an Windows XP machine I could se that Taskbar Shuffle used VERY much memory, 110MB. I wonder how it can be. On my Vista machine I have not seen this behavior at all. Normally stay around 2,5MB. I might have read the numbers in Process Explorer wrong on the XP machine. But I do not think so.

On the Windows XP machine I installed Taskix to see how that works. OK, it does not have all features. But it seems to stay at only using 1MB of memory. More like what I would expect a small utility like this.

xNeat also makes a program to shuffle the taskbar which looks nice. As do their clipboard program. But this is not freeware.

Update(2008-10-11): after monitoring Taskbar Shuffle on my vista machine I get the feeling I look wrong on the XP machine. So I guess I need to have a look again on the XP machine. But the XP machine was using very much memory and TS looked very big.

Update(2008-10-16): now I have been able do try Taskbar Shuffle on XP again. And it directly start using 110MB of memory. And it is REAL memory. I will use Taskix on XP for now.

Rearrange the taskbar

This is one feature I have been waiting for MicroSoft to put into Windows for a long time. I just do not understand why it is not there. Especially now when tabs are so popular and all software use them and can rearrange the tabs. I have not used GUI that much in Linux. But now I have at least one desktop running Gnome 2.22 on Linux. And there it work great with moving the applications on the panel. And it probably have for a long time.

I have not really look for how to write my own program that do this. Or looked hard on the internet if somebody else have done it. But the other day when I read lifehacker I ran into this. It was linked to by some other entry. It mentions a program called Taskbar Shuffle. It looked like an active project so I downloaded and tried. It works fine, both in Windows 2000 and Vista.

I also search little bit on the internet. And found another program named Taskix. I have not tired it. It say it only support Windows XP or later. Taskbar Shuffle can move icons in the system tray, I see nothing about that in Taskix.

The updated patch 4

So now I have finally upgraded the 7.1 systems I have running to the updated patch 4. The version reported now is 7.1.00 Patch 004 200808100630. The original patch 4 reported the version like this, 7.1.00 Patch 004 200807081308. So keep that in mind, patch 4 should show 20080810 in the date part of the version string. Very important.

The updated patch fixed, “Out-of-the-box” reports were not available to standard users after
patch 004 was installed.

Urgent update to Total Commander

Only two days after 7.04 was released 7.04a was released. There was some serious bug about deleting files. It deleted the wrong files in certain situations. And I only noticed today. Slow again.

Also updated recently is KeePass, the program I use to remember my passwords. Available both in Windows and Linux. But the Linux version is behind in functionality. But they can read the same files. Great.

Remedy blunder

Now BMC have released an update of patch 4 of AR System 7.1. An update, why not a new patch. This only make chaos. Patch 4 contains updates to clients/server/email/approval/midtier. This new update to patch 4 is only the server. So now, how do you know you have the latest or not. You have to go look at the files. Very stupid.

Since it is the server that is updated it might show a new date in the version of the server. I have not looked yet. So I do not know. I will install the update soon, and report back.

I've missed a new release of Total Commander

I have totally missed that Total Commander have released a new version. OK, it is only a minor release. But anyway. It is a program I use every day and a program that I used to be active in beta testing. So now 7.04 of Total Commander is available.

New patch for AR System 7.1

Today BMC released patch 4 of BMC Remedy AR System 7.1.

No note about liking the version numbers reported by Java 1.6.0_04 and later. I guess I should try to install and see. Thank god to virtual machines.

It looked like some really serious bugs were fixed on the server. None that I have experienced. Also some table field bug in Usertool. I do not like it. Every new version of Usertool have new behavior of tables.