how to disable "not responding" title-bar in vista?

[Eabin]

TV-Server Version: svn from 2007-05-18
MediaPortal Version: same
MediaPortal Skin: bluetwo
Windows Version: vista
CPU Type: athlon 64 3500+
HDD:
Memory: 1GB
Motherboard:
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Gigabyte 8500GT
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card:
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card:
1. TV Card Type:
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
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This is a little offtopic, but does anybody know how to disable the "not responding" message in windows vista? i didn't have this problem in xp, but every time when mediaportal does something with a little more cpu/hdd activity, there appears a vista title-bar above the bluetwo theme which states "not responding", and looks _really_ ugly. if this bar is there for more than a few seconds, vista prompts me to kill mediaportal, which is very distracting. even the splashscreen gets a title-bar all of a sudden while loading the plugins.

thanks,
-erwin

[BKCH]

Hi Eabin - any joy on this? I get the same thing in Vista whenever I start fullscreen etc... Thanks in advance

[Eabin]

i do have a few rather rude patches that i use on my local copy - but they are far from perfect. i think i will be sitting this one out and wait for MP2

[BKCH]

Thanks for your post Eabin - I played around with this a little last night and using MPFocus this problem is almost completely fixed for me - did you try that? If so, did it make much of a difference for you?

[iosub]

To Eabin

Hi, remember the pacth that you create on
TVEngine3 Snapshot: 01-22-2008 05-08h Revision 17122

I have found that if I use the patch, Myalarm Sleep stops working, The timer does not start

Any way to fixed?? I love that patch because it makes MP on Vista more responsible.

BkCK, what is MPFOCUS??

Thanks!

[BKCH]

Hi iosub. MPfocus is a plugin that keeps mp as the focus windows (see: MEDIAPORTAL - free MediaCenter HTPC Software - MpFocus)

That said; mpfocus didn't fix my problem and I still have this issue. I've learnt to live with it by setting my windows desktop to completely black (with taskbar auto-hide on) so my screen basically just goes black for a moment - which is less jarring than dropping out to a desktop.

I'm not sure what the issue is - seems there's something in MP that causes Vista to have a pregnant pause when you go in and out of full screen. (BTW I loaded SP1 this week in the hope it might fix it but no-good)

It would be great if we could figure this one out - let me know if you get anywhere

[iosub]

Originally Posted by BKCH

Hi iosub. MPfocus is a plugin that keeps mp as the focus windows (see: MEDIAPORTAL - free MediaCenter HTPC Software - MpFocus)

That said; mpfocus didn't fix my problem and I still have this issue. I've learnt to live with it by setting my windows desktop to completely black (with taskbar auto-hide on) so my screen basically just goes black for a moment - which is less jarring than dropping out to a desktop.

I'm not sure what the issue is - seems there's something in MP that causes Vista to have a pregnant pause when you go in and out of full screen. (BTW I loaded SP1 this week in the hope it might fix it but no-good)

It would be great if we could figure this one out - let me know if you get anywhere

Thanks for the answer..
I was using Eabin patch untill yesterday that I found that MyAlarm Sleep was not working..
If you don't need MyAlarm, Eabin Patch WORKS GREAT.. No more Blank Window o "No repond window in Vista", hope Eabin has time to check this problem again

Thanks!!

[BKCH]

wow - cool - I'll be giving this a try in about 30 seconds!!!!

[BKCH]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

Thanks guys

One question; does that mean I'll miss out of changes in SVN builds or does mediaportal.exe rarely change??

Thanks again - this is great

[Paranoid Delusion]

One question; does that mean I'll miss out of changes in SVN builds or does mediaportal.exe rarely change??

Is there a constant in the universe

Seriously, everything is being cleaned\debugged ATM, so there are changes everywhere, with all members of the team working toward a RC release.

Sorry no guarantees