P.I. Engineering Macroworks 3.1 for X-Keys running impossibly slow under Windows 7
Update August 2022: The solution below did NOT work for me, so three more years of putting up with this nonsense. Pretty much every time I ran Macroworks, it would hog the CPU to the point where the machine became almost completely unresponsive. It took 20-25 minutes just to start Task Manager and kill it. However, I may have found another solution: Set Macroworks' "Priority" in Task Manager to "Low". This seems to let it hog the CPU without actually getting in the way of anything. This is (again) a new development and I don't know if it is going to pan out, but it's worth a shot. ------------------------------- Update Oct 2019: Per the comments below, I updated to the latest MW (as of mid-Oct) and it seems to be completely fixed. Oddly, PI does not mention this anywhere that I could find. Perhaps they don't want to admit they had an issue, or perhaps the issue really was confined to a few lucky users. However, you DO need to manually...