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  • winpoint: waiting for optimization to complete..

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Thu Apr 23 23:58:00 2020
    Hello!


    I just ran into a new situation with Winpoint.

    I fired it up and kinckstarted the handy nodelist viewer via <F9>

    When I started to enter the particulars for my search, the program kicked into "Waiting for Optimization to complete.." and bogged down my whole XP
    pc environment. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager was not responding as soon as I hoped it would. But after a few more attempts of C-A-D, I was able to kill the WinPointII.exe process.

    But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?




    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Fri Apr 24 12:10:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** Thursday 23.04.20 at 23:58, August Abolins wrote to All:

    I just ran into a new situation with Winpoint.

    Uh-oh

    I fired it up and kinckstarted the handy nodelist viewer via <F9>

    When I started to enter the particulars for my search, the program kicked into "Waiting for Optimization to complete.." and bogged down my whole XP pc environment. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager was not responding as soon as I hoped it would. But after a few more attempts of C-A-D, I was able to kill the WinPointII.exe process.

    Yikes!! :-((

    But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?

    I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization feature disabled, sorry.

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.59 to Martin Foster on Fri Apr 24 08:47:22 2020
    Hello Martin,

    On 24.04.20, you wrote to August Abolins:

    But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?

    I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization feature disabled, sorry.

    I'm looking around the settings and can't find that feature setting. Clue?


    ../|ug

    --- WinPoint Beta 5 (359.1)
    * Origin: Please write your complaint in this box [ ] - Legibly (2:221/1.59)
  • From Martin Foster@2:310/31.3 to August Abolins on Sat Apr 25 13:37:00 2020
    Hello August!

    *** Friday 24.04.20 at 08:47, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

    But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?

    I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization
    feature disabled, sorry.

    I'm looking around the settings and can't find that feature setting.
    Clue?

    Extras -> Options -> Automation

    Maintenance = Never
    Defragmentation = Never

    Regards,
    Martin

    --- OpenXP 5.0.43
    * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.59 to Martin Foster on Sat Apr 25 09:41:24 2020
    Hello Martin,

    On 25.04.20, you wrote to August Abolins:

    I'm looking around the settings and can't find that feature setting.
    Clue?

    Extras -> Options -> Automation

    Maintenance = Never Defragmentation = Never

    That's what I have too! So, is there a secret key-combo that I may have used
    that starts the Optimization?


    ../|ug

    --- WinPoint Beta 5 (359.1)
    * Origin: Please write your complaint in this box [ ] - Legibly (2:221/1.59)