{"id":1459,"date":"2012-08-27T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2012-11-19T08:49:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T13:49:20","slug":"expand-printers-setting-brings-the-xp-start-button-to-its-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2012\/expand-printers-setting-brings-the-xp-start-button-to-its-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Expand Printers setting brings the XP Start button to its knees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I turned on the “Expand Printers” option on the XP taskbar settings, and from that point forward, any time I accessed the Start button via Ctrl-ESC, it has kept me waiting for 5-10 seconds. Watching the CPU usage with task manager didn’t give me any useful information, it was only through trial and error, and lots of false blame (eg on a SQL Server shortcut), that I finally found this problem. Disabling the setting eliminated the CPU pegging. <\/p>\n

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For a little background… On XP, I keep my taskbar hidden unless I want to see it. I’ve ranted about this before<\/a>, it’s a pretty fundamental concept that it should be ME who decides how my computer communicates with me. For Microsoft to open up the taskbar in Windows 7 so that any app can force itself to be recognized, flashing until user interaction is made, is absolute madness, akin to providing a browser with no popup control. As a control zealot, this drives me mad.<\/p>\n

I realize this is a small problem on an old OS. I really don’t care about it except that at work I’m forced to use this shitty stuff. I shouldn’t really waste blog space on this stuff… but it makes me feel better. And that’s the only reason this blog exists anyway. So there. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I turned on the “Expand Printers” option on the XP taskbar settings, and from that point forward, any time I accessed the Start button via Ctrl-ESC, it has kept me waiting for 5-10 seconds. Watching the CPU usage with task manager didn’t give me any useful information, it was only through trial and error, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-chatter","tag-annoyances"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t