BatteryBar causes windows explorer stop working

[pgpayton]

After installin BatteryBar 3.54, when I start my laptop there maybe a chance to wait windows explorer to response, after that got the message said windows explorer stop working then I have to restart the windows explorer. I uninstall the BatteryBar then the issue is gone.
My Computer environment is
Windows 7 x86
T4200 CPU
3GB RAM
plugin power using windows Balance power scheme

Thanks for your help

[Chris]

Thanks for reporting this issue. I have seen this occur but as of yet I haven't been able to locate the cause. Basically the software is entering a race condition of multiple background threads waiting for each other to do the same thing. Because BatteryBar is an explorer plugin (basically), it causes the single-threaded explorer to hang waiting for BatteryBar, which is also hung and not processing window messages.

I'll make some further attempts to troubleshoot this issue.

[Ashkan]

I've been getting this a lot lately too.

[Chris]

Ashkan, your signature says you are on 3.5.1. Can you upgrade to 3.5.4 and let me know if it's any better? I did a lot of reworking of the multi-threaded code in 3.5.4 that should work better than older versions.

[Ashkan]

(04-19-2012 10:47 AM)Chris Wrote:  Ashkan, your signature says you are on 3.5.1. Can you upgrade to 3.5.4 and let me know if it's any better? I did a lot of reworking of the multi-threaded code in 3.5.4 that should work better than older versions.

Batterybar was updated, my signature wasn't. I forgot i kept the version in my sig. I've still got the explorer bug. It's been really kind of bad, well enough to stop using batterybar.

[Chris]

Have you been able to deduce under what circumstances it occurs? Have you enabled debug logging to generate a log to see what's happening when it freezes up?