Agreed. Only two appear to be for connectivity and I woudn't recommend
running apps needed to "debug" at all times. Most gadgets are written by
people "tinkering" and I wouldn't run them on a system I want to remain
stable. And if they are stable, why add the overhead when the information is
already available in the system.
"Mary" wrote:
> You might have too many items running or one of them is causing this
> conflict. Stop all of them from running and add them back one at a time and
> test it to find the one that's causing this.
>
> "Patrick" wrote:
>
> > Just an observation and was wondering if anyone has abserved the same.
> >
> > I am running Vista Business on a new Toshiba laptop (with 2 gigs of ram)
> >
> > I am running a few sidebar gadgets.
> > Moon Phase II
> > DC Wireless Network Monitor
> > WhatIsMyIp
> > MultimeterD(tracks cpu & Memory usage)
> > DUMeter (tracks bandwidth)
> > Weather
> > Battery Meter
> >
> > They are all extremely useful as I use this laptop to diagnose network
> > connectivity issues
> >
> > But so far each and every time I insert a thumb drive the gadgets have to be
> > restarted in fact just at this writing inserting any USB device causes it to
> > crash. (just plugged in my USB headset) and of course the order is all messed
> > up.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
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