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I was using PB 4.20 today and when I clicked on CPU Monitor nothing happened except the words CPU Monitor appeared on the taskbar (but the window didn't appear when I clicked it). I reinstalled PB, no change, so I downloaded PB 4.30 and installed it. Now the CPU Monitor isn't even listed in the Debugger menu. It's just gone.

Anyone got any idea what's wrong? Suggestions?

The CPU monitor has been removed. Reason given was that all OS's that PB runs on have their own monitors that are perfectly good so dev time is better spent elsewhere.

Thanks for the quick reply.

It seems odd that the CPU monitor stopped working in an *old* version of PB tho as I'm fairly sure yesterday it did work.

It probably appeared off screen. You could fix that in PureBasic.prefs.

But why removed? It's not like they need to add to it with every version?
It's a standalone finished tool, wasn't it? Sometimes I don't get it.

I think it had some problems with multi-core processors.

Thanks Trond I wasn't aware of the preferences file.

I'm all for bringing back the CPU monitor. It's saved me from some very nasty memory leaks in the past.

If you minimize the Windows task manager it will provide a nice little cpu monitor in your notification area. If you're on Linux, Gnome has one for their desktop panels. I don't know about KDE/Mac.

Ooh thanks didn't know that! I use Windows and Ubuntu but I'm not really a 'power user' as you may have guessed...

> If you minimize the Windows task manager [...]

Unfortunately the Task Manager is often disabled when you're not an admin.
Hence the reason why the CPU monitor should stay in the PureBasic IDE.