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Old 05-16-2007, 08:41 PM   #2
Jim Sachs
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This is always caused by other programs running in the background, and they are usually very hard to track down. The Aquarium runs at a very low proirity, so just about any other program can steal its clock cycles. Network and Internet software are the usual suspects, but it could be anything. Sometimes it's useful to bring up the Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL), and see what processes are running. Watch out for silent, secret automatic update software.

I'm looking into ways of allowing the user to bump up the proirity of MA3, locking out other programs during time-critical routines.
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