Blog:: Craig Pringle

There is a new user group coming to town and starting the right way – with touch related demos and fresh Windows 7 goodness.

Nicholas Rayner and Craig Bailey have joined forces to create the Sydney Windows User Group.  From the site:

The aim of the SWUG is to support and provide advice to consumers, power users and small business in regards to the Microsoft Windows Operating System and related products. The user group will showcase the Windows Operating System and provide demonstrations of key components of Windows can be used both at home and in your business.

The User Group will also focus on related Microsoft Products including Windows Mobile, Windows Home Server, Microsoft Office, Windows Live and XBOX 360 and how they can be used to enhance the Windows user experience.

The first meeting will be at Microsoft in Sydney on the 13th of May, 2009.  Here’s the details.

Meeting details

Date: Wednesday 13^th May 2009

Time: 6pm – 9pm

Venue: Microsoft Australia - 1 Epping Road, North Ryde

Agenda:

6:00pm – Introduction

6:10pm – News with Q&A session

6:30pm – Windows 7 RC Demonstration

7:20pm – Break

7:40pm – Windows Touch including a demonstration on the HP Touchsmart PC

8:20pm – Close

If you can make it to the first meeting, please RSVP to nicholas@windowsusergroup.com

I’ve already put it in my calendar so if you can make it I’ll be seeing you there.  You may also want to add the RSS Feed from the SWUG blog to your feed reader, so you can keep tabs on future meetings.

Previously I blogged about an issue I was having on one of my PCs with Live Mesh.  The problem was that Moe.exe (the process behind Live Mesh) was consuming excessive CPU when ever it was running.  This has obvious ill effects on the battery life and overall system performance.

I was hoping that the recent update to Live Mesh would of fixed it.  Unfortunately this was not the case.  However since I was only experiencing this issue on one of my machines I decided to see if I could find a fix.  I did.

What I did was remove my problematic machine from my Mesh.  I then copied the contents of the synchronised folder to another location on my hard drive (as a precaution) and deleted everything in the target folder.  I then re-added my machine to my Mesh and set up synchronisation for that folder again. 

In the Before shot below the yellow line shows the percentage of the CPU that Moe.exe was using.

After the fix it consistently looks more like this:

A vast improvement and suddenly Live Mesh is useful to me again.