Slow GUI - reason maybe found

Bug Reports
#1

Hello everybody,
since there are lot’s of complains about Comodo GUI speed and I’m also the one who experience very slow respond from Comodo, I start looking for reasons.
I used nice little utility called filemon and maybe I found the reason. It seems that proces cfp.exe keep continously accesing some dll files. In my case it is
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll

Within few seconds I had 40 000+ events in filemon. Since GameHook.dll belong to Logitech SetPoint aplication I tried to close this application. Improvment in GUI speed of Comodo was great, it was still not as fast as I would like it but much better. Second dll is microsoft Text Service Module, I’m not sure if this can be killed. Anyway it seems to me that Comodo have some problem when interacting with these dll files which slow down gui significantly. Question is if Comodo team will do something about it. I definately hope so.

See entries from filemon below

Thanks
Best regards

Jerry

P.S. I’m running WinXP 32bit fully patched, NOD32

cfp.exe:1680 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll SUCCESS Attributes: A
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll SUCCESS Options: Open Access: 00100020
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll SUCCESS Options: Open Access: 00100001
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: 00100000
cfp.exe:1680 QUERY INFORMATION C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll SUCCESS FileInternalInformation
cfp.exe:1680 CLOSE C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\GameHook.dll SUCCESS

cfp.exe:1680 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll SUCCESS Attributes: A
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll SUCCESS Options: Open Access: 00100020
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll SUCCESS Options: Open Access: 00100001
cfp.exe:1680 OPEN C:\WINDOWS\system32\ SUCCESS Options: Open Directory Access: 00100000
cfp.exe:1680 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll SUCCESS FileInternalInformation
cfp.exe:1680 CLOSE C:\WINDOWS\system32\MSCTF.dll SUCCESS

#2

Hi all
I would like to confirm that problem with slow-down of GUI with third-party software (Logitech) is resolved in version 3.0.20.320.
But the GUI still keep hammering the Microsoft MSCTF.dll library. Not all the time but just when mouse cursor is placed over any CFP menu or button. Just placing mouse cursor over menu start continous MSCTF.dll hammering in unbelievable way (2000 entries in Filemon per second). Is that normal???
Even GUI speed improved after problem with Logitech was solved I still consider CFP GUI slow (as long as I can see overdrawing of GUI parts it is slow)

Best regards
Jerry

#3

Is a way to add a rule to prevent cfp.exe from calling msctf.dll?

#4

I did a test & I can confirm that withought msctf.dll the GUI works OK but Windows needs this file to run language bar.
I hope the CFP team with fix that on the next update or give comment.