In my last post “Are You As Productive As You Can Be?” I mentioned a cool time management tool called Action Enforcer. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now. It works great except that I found when its window is open, regardless if it has the focus or not, it takes up 20-30% of CPU time.
It is really not acceptable that it would take so much CPU time especially when it is not in focus and all it’s doing is updating the timer. I am guessing there is a busy loop somewhere in the program – not a good programming practice.
Most people probably won’t notice the problem. However, my laptop runs pretty hot. When something is hogging the CPU, it causes the fan to run at higher speed which is quite noisy.
Fortunately, there is a solution. The CPU hogging doesn’t occur if Action Enforcer is minimized. When it’s minimized, it is hidden in the system tray. To make it appear on the taskbar all the time, I clicked the “Show hidden icons” arrow,
then clicked “Customize…”
Then I set Action Enforcer to “Show icon and notifications.”
This will force Action Enforcer icon to appear on the taskbar all the time.
This way if I need to bring up Action Enforcer, it will only takes me one click – same number of click if I leave the window open and having to bring it to the front – but now I can free up 20-30% of the CPU time.
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