Seti Driver, Hide etc - Concluded.

[Migroo]

I have several issues with Seti Driver:
- The CLI does not seem as willing to give up CPU cycles to other apps when compared to SetiHide
- Problems with MS Outlook
- No facility to just Flush or just Fetch WUs - with SetiHide you can do this

I have just tried SetiHide, however:
- The Outlook issue is still present - although it seems less of a problem.
- There doesnt seem to be a way of hiding the CLI - surely I have missed this as the app is called 'SetiHide'...

Help!

 

[Crazee]

I am do not know about SetiHide, but I can tell you that there is no problem with Outlook XP. I think the Outlook 2000 issue has more to do with the poor programming of MicroSnot.

 

[Migroo]

Oh right...

 

[Migroo]

Nevermind guys, I am back to Seti Driver.

 

[ober]

FYI, the Outlook 2K, XP, and Windows XP performance problem is related to the fact that someone at MS decided to run the offline folders support thread at priority 1 and someone else decided that this thread must complete before they can continue. If you don't use the offline folder support in these products, there is no performance issue.

Without VxD or kernel device support, it is impossible to lower the SETI CLI client's priority from 4 to 1, which is where it should be anyway. I have notified Berkeley twice about this problem.

Mike Ober.

 

[RaySun2Be]

Thanks for the explanation, Ober. That definitely ties in to what I've experienced with the SETI/Outlook issue. I knew I could blame it on MS.

Maybe we should do a team mailing to SETI requesting the priority change.

 

[Migroo]

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

Thats strange - I dont think I use the offline folders... I'll have to check that out.

Thanks

 

[ColinP]

Migroo,

you must have missed the settings in SetiHide.

You can hide the Seti Client and the SetiHide process.
You can even rename the client to something else eg idle.exe
You can rename SetiHide to something else eg SH.exe
You can even set it to stop processing if another process is running eg taskmgr.exe !!!!!!!! it will start up again when the user exits from task manager.

It is the stealthiest (is that a word ??) Seti App theat I know of.
Haven't tried running it as a service though.

cheers,

Col

 

[Migroo]

Thanks ColinP

USeful information. I'll keep SetiHide in mind, although it doesnt correct the problems I have with SETI at the moment, and SetiDriver is fine in all other respects, so I'll be sticking with that - at least here at home.

Nice to know about the stealth settings though... ;]

Thanks