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Peek-a-Boo (Macintosh shareware utility) (12/29/2000 14:04 EST) I first learned of this handy utility from James Schultz on the Radio Userland discussion group, who suggested it as a solution for a problem with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which wants to hog all the processor time when it's running. Using the Special Technology features of Peek-a-Boo, some users have reported being able to get IE to peacefully co-exist with other server software (including Frontier and Radio Userland) so that it shares time and everything gets done properly. Perhaps you'll find it useful, too. Peek-a-Boo is shareware and you can register it at Kagi for $20.00.

From the Peek-a-Boo website: "Peek-a-Boo is a utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch how much CPU time each process uses, adjust the CPU time requested by each process, and look at any piece of information available through the Process Manager.

"The Process Manager (available in MacOS System 7 and later) maintains a dozen or so pieces of information about each running process (normally an application); many fine utilities show a subset of this information.

"My personal motivation for writing Peek-a-Boo was that no existing utility showed precisely the subset of Process Manager information I needed to know at a given time. So I made sure that Peek-a-Boo can show any piece of information available via the Process Manager; preferences can be edited to view only those pieces of information you need. And, with the Special Technology of Peek-a-Boo ST, you can now adjust the priorities of processes to customize which processes get more processor time. "

Looks promising.

** JD **

   2:16:34 PM


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