Subj : winpoint: waiting for optimization to complete.. To : August Abolins From : Martin Foster Date : Fri Apr 24 2020 12:10:00 Hello August! *** Thursday 23.04.20 at 23:58, August Abolins wrote to All: AA> I just ran into a new situation with Winpoint. Uh-oh AA> I fired it up and kinckstarted the handy nodelist viewer via AA> When I started to enter the particulars for my search, the program kicked AA> into "Waiting for Optimization to complete.." and bogged down my whole XP AA> pc environment. Even Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager was not AA> responding as soon as I hoped it would. But after a few more attempts of AA> C-A-D, I was able to kill the WinPointII.exe process. Yikes!! :-(( AA> But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ? I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization feature disabled, sorry. Regards, Martin --- OpenXP 5.0.43 * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3) .