Another Possible Slowdown Reason

[DaleReeck]

This may be just for me and not affect anyone else, but I found a signifcant speedup solution for the sluggish WM5/Universal. Remember the 'ol "Notify Queue" problems with Windows Mbile 2003 where every reboot would add one or two duplicate notification events to the notify database? Supposedly it was fixed for 2003 SE (but it wasn't). And you would think it was fixed for WM5. But maybe not.

Again, maybe it's me only because of something funky I'm doing, but using Scary Bear's free Notification Check utility, I discovered over 200 duplicate notify events. I went and deleted them and suddenly my Universal was much faster, even at rebooting and syncing. Just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, I used the device for several days. The performance is noticibly and consistently better.

Every reboot still adds one or two events and the auto clean on bootup utlity of Scary Bear's does not work with WM5, you have to use the application and delete each one by hand (that does work). But keeping this notify database clean has helped me tremendously.

I don't know if it will work for you all, but it might be worth a look if you are havoing slowdown or (like me) calendar problems.

[cktlcmd]

Why not use Pocket Mechanic or MemMaid's noticifation scanner? Gives you more system functions at the same time.

[DaleReeck]

Eh, I had bad luck with Memmaid last time I tried it. It tends to clean up too much stuff, including stuff I don't want cleaned up :)

[FOSA]

cktlcmd,


MemMaid's notification scanner does not clean as effectively as Scarybear's one

Not sure about Pocket Mechanic since its not WM5 compatible at the moment

[cktlcmd]

cktlcmd,


MemMaid's notification scanner does not clean as effectively as Scarybear's one

Not sure about Pocket Mechanic since its not WM5 compatible at the moment

Thanks for these information.

[cktlcmd]

I just tried Check Notifications from Scary Bear. It is as good as MemMaid and Pocket Mechanic. There were no new notifications detected by Scary Bear. All notifications that were shown on both Pocket Mechanic and Memmaid were also shown on ScaryBear. Again there was nothing new added to the notifications done with ScaryBear.

[cktlcmd]

Another question, is Scary Bear FREE? When I was installing it, a message appered that I need to buy the application after the trial period. Now I kept looking for the registration page but I can't find it. Is Scary Bear FREE?

[FOSA]

Yes, Check Notifications from Scarybear is FREE!

[Richard Schmidt]

If I look with Scary Bear Check notifications, I see numereous (>50) entries of sddeamon.exe, is it save to remove all the duplicates as shown in red?

[DaleReeck]

If I look with Scary Bear Check notifications, I see numereous (>50) entries of sddeamon.exe, is it save to remove all the duplicates as shown in red?

It is used by the built in Voice Dialer utility. I don't know why it keeps loading in the notify database. Since I use Microsoft's Voice Command instead of the built in voice dialer, I removed the sddeamon link from the Startup folder and deleted all the sseamon's. I haven't had any problems - or have the sddeanon's return tol the notify database.

If you do use the built in voice dialing util, you probably can't remove the link from startup like I did, but you can probably remove the sddeamon's from the notify database. It shouldn't hurt things though I can't say for sure.

[Richard Schmidt]

Removing all sddemon.exe seems to work just fine. I noticed a reduced reboot time. Thanks for the feedback.

[246810]

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but how exactly have some managed to install scarbears notification free app on their device. I keep getting a message saying that the app is not suitable for my device, even after extracting the app from the zip file