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Windows Flakiness Solved: The Desktop Heap

Started by KnightKnetwork · 7 months ago

Old, dead, obsolete computers

Originally uploaded by Extra Ketchup

This is a picture of a HEAP of Desktops. Recently I found out the hard way that Windows XP also has a Desktop HEAP. I recently was upgraded at work to a Dell Optiplex GX620 with Windows XP Pro. I re ... Continue reading »

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  • This is exactly what was happening with my computer. It would get so bad that it was even occurring after I closed all other programs and only had a single explorer window open.

    I found the solution here:

    http://www.mikedopp.com/archive/2007/07/13/incr...

    Everything works just fine with the handle limit. But now some windows seem not update and I would need to Alt-Tab or mouse over parts of it to refresh. It might have something to do with the additional registry mods of the GDI process handle and user process handle limit that was suggested ini the above link.

    Are you experiencing any delay in windows re-drawing? If not, then maybe I need to look into those other reg edits.
  • I did experience the same windows redraw issue. That was probably what annoyed me the most.
  • Was this problem fixed with Vista? Just curious about that.

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