• WcStart vs Windows 10

    From CRAIG STRUTT@1:124/5013 to All on Thu Jan 31 19:17:19 2019
    Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:45:23 -0400
    From: CRAIG STRUTT
    To: HECTOR SANTOS
    Subject: WcStart vs Windows 10
    Newsgroups: winserver.public.gamma.testing
    Message-ID: <1455140723.40.0@winserver.com>
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    I've been working with this for about four months. Upgraded my Winserver machine to Windows 10 64 bit.

    Everything is working fine... except...

    WcStart does what it is supposed to do, with very little memory and CPU
    usage, then when it's done and tries to exit, it locks one (of 4 CPUs on
    this machine) at 100% (25% overall) and hangs.

    For a long time I thought it was perhaps hanging up waiting for a process
    to report back, then I discovered that I can start WcStart (from the home directory) as if I were going to make changes to the startup routine. If I
    do something, or nothing (it doesn't matter) and then attempt to close the program (either by the red X, or by ALT-X, or by clicking on schedule and exit) it does the same thing as mentioned above.

    With WcStart hogging the first CPU, everything else slows to a crawl, and automated shutdown will not work until WcStart is manually ended using Task Manager.

    This forces me to manually backup, and manually restart the system if
    needed for updates.

    On a different note, WcMail occasionally (about 1 out of 10 times) when it starts will grab ALL processors at 100%. Simply changing the affinity and deselecting one processor (it doesn't matter which one) and saying okay,
    drops the processor load to 0%. Then I can go back in, change the
    affinity to all processors, and it continues to operate just fine.

    I am at wcSTART v7.0.454.4.

    Windows 10 Home 64bit
    Version 11511
    Build 10586.104
    4GB RAM
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  • From BOBBY TODD@1:124/5013 to All on Thu Jan 31 19:17:19 2019
    Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:44:24 -0400
    From: BOBBY TODD
    To: CRAIG STRUTT
    Subject: RE: WcStart vs Windows 10
    Newsgroups: winserver.public.gamma.testing
    Message-ID: <1456796664.40.1455140723@winserver.com>
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    On 2/10/2016 4:45 PM, CRAIG STRUTT wrote to HECTOR SANTOS:

    Windows 10 Home 64bit
    ^^^^^

    This is where I have always had a problem. Which is why I ALWAYS recommend running Wildcat! under 32-bit Windows (and do so myself).
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