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Hello there,

this might be my first post here and it is slightly off
topic since it is not about something I am developing.

At work use a nifty little program called Task Coach.
It helps me keep track of what I spend time on.

Here is my problem. When I use it on a Vista box its
user interface is very, very slow when it comes to
some but not all operations. On any other Windows
version it reacts instantaneously. I have not tried
Task Coach on Linux or Solaris (yet).

Is this how wxPython or Python works on Vista in
general or is this the result of some local oddity on my
employer's Vista configuration?

TIA,

/Martin

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:16:39 +0200, (Martin
Schöön) wrote:
> Here is my problem. When I use it on a Vista box its
> user interface is very, very slow when it comes to
> some but not all operations. On any other Windows
> version it reacts instantaneously. I have not tried
> Task Coach on Linux or Solaris (yet).
>
> Is this how wxPython or Python works on Vista in
> general or is this the result of some local oddity on my
> employer's Vista configuration?

I have encountered the same thing on XP in one instance
on a development box. For some reason, wxpython just
grinds to a halt.

I couldn't solve it and reimaged the O/S... that
fixed it...

David

David Lyon <> writes:

> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:16:39 +0200, (Martin
> Schöön) wrote:
>> Here is my problem. When I use it on a Vista box its
>> user interface is very, very slow when it comes to
>> some but not all operations. On any other Windows
>> version it reacts instantaneously. I have not tried
>> Task Coach on Linux or Solaris (yet).
>>
>> Is this how wxPython or Python works on Vista in
>> general or is this the result of some local oddity on my
>> employer's Vista configuration?
>
> I have encountered the same thing on XP in one instance
> on a development box. For some reason, wxpython just
> grinds to a halt.
>
> I couldn't solve it and reimaged the O/S... that
> fixed it...

Reimaged?

Since my first post on this I have installed the very latest
version of Task Coach and Vista has been through an SP1 install.

The GUI speed issue remains despite this.

/Martin