Sidebar Crashes every time I insert a usb Device

Just an observation and was wondering if anyone has abserved the same.

I am running Vista Business on a new Toshiba laptop (with 2 gigs of ram)

I am running a few sidebar gadgets.
Moon Phase II
DC Wireless Network Monitor
WhatIsMyIp
MultimeterD(tracks cpu & Memory usage)
DUMeter (tracks bandwidth)
Weather
Battery Meter

They are all extremely useful as I use this laptop to diagnose network
connectivity issues

But so far each and every time I insert a thumb drive the gadgets have to be
restarted in fact just at this writing inserting any USB device causes it to
crash. (just plugged in my USB headset) and of course the order is all messed
up.

Any ideas?

You might have too many items running or one of them is causing this
conflict. Stop all of them from running and add them back one at a time and
test it to find the one that's causing this.

"Patrick" wrote:

> Just an observation and was wondering if anyone has abserved the same.
>
> I am running Vista Business on a new Toshiba laptop (with 2 gigs of ram)
>
> I am running a few sidebar gadgets.
> Moon Phase II
> DC Wireless Network Monitor
> WhatIsMyIp
> MultimeterD(tracks cpu & Memory usage)
> DUMeter (tracks bandwidth)
> Weather
> Battery Meter
>
> They are all extremely useful as I use this laptop to diagnose network
> connectivity issues
>
> But so far each and every time I insert a thumb drive the gadgets have to be
> restarted in fact just at this writing inserting any USB device causes it to
> crash. (just plugged in my USB headset) and of course the order is all messed
> up.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

Agreed. Only two appear to be for connectivity and I woudn't recommend
running apps needed to "debug" at all times. Most gadgets are written by
people "tinkering" and I wouldn't run them on a system I want to remain
stable. And if they are stable, why add the overhead when the information is
already available in the system.

"Mary" wrote:

> You might have too many items running or one of them is causing this
> conflict. Stop all of them from running and add them back one at a time and
> test it to find the one that's causing this.
>
> "Patrick" wrote:
>
> > Just an observation and was wondering if anyone has abserved the same.
> >
> > I am running Vista Business on a new Toshiba laptop (with 2 gigs of ram)
> >
> > I am running a few sidebar gadgets.
> > Moon Phase II
> > DC Wireless Network Monitor
> > WhatIsMyIp
> > MultimeterD(tracks cpu & Memory usage)
> > DUMeter (tracks bandwidth)
> > Weather
> > Battery Meter
> >
> > They are all extremely useful as I use this laptop to diagnose network
> > connectivity issues
> >
> > But so far each and every time I insert a thumb drive the gadgets have to be
> > restarted in fact just at this writing inserting any USB device causes it to
> > crash. (just plugged in my USB headset) and of course the order is all messed
> > up.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >