DisplayFusion RSS: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128 DisplayFusion RSS: I/O over a day Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:50:06 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128 RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#9 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:21:36 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#9 DisplayFusion Thanks for the link - I'll take a look. :) ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#8 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:19:31 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#8 DisplayFusion
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I haven't checked yet, but I plan on downloading the new SDK (over 1.3 GB) after the release of DisplayFusion v2.3. I know that all of the existing methods will work as expected, but I am interested to see if they added anything new to help out the new Windows Themes functionality.

Looks like Vista (and W7) use .JPGs now: Good article:

http://chris.pirillo.com/vista-wallpaper-tip/

"Okay, since Windows Vista supports JPG wallpapers, you should no longer set your wallpaper through Internet Explorer (which converts images to BMP before they’re set to your desktop, totally nullifying any kind of improvement the Vista shell team did in respect to saving system resources). Here’s how I’d suggest doing it from this point forward...." ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#7 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:42:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#7 DisplayFusion I haven't checked yet, but I plan on downloading the new SDK (over 1.3 GB) after the release of DisplayFusion v2.3. I know that all of the existing methods will work as expected, but I am interested to see if they added anything new to help out the new Windows Themes functionality. ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#6 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:22:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#6 DisplayFusion
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Unfortunately the Windows (Win32) API for changing the wallpaper only accepts .bmp files. This is a limitation of Windows, not DisplayFusion. As a result, DisplayFusion will use more space than the jpg images alone would use.

Do you know how Windows 7 handles wallpaper? (.bmp or .jpg/.png) ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#5 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:59:48 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#5 DisplayFusion Unfortunately the Windows (Win32) API for changing the wallpaper only accepts .bmp files. This is a limitation of Windows, not DisplayFusion. As a result, DisplayFusion will use more space than the jpg images alone would use. ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#4 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:47:27 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#4 DisplayFusion DF writes a CustomeWallpaper.bmp file (in my case a dual screen width file), and bmp's are huge (10 meg), so that may be correct.

Not sure if windows will use a .jpg without converting it to a big 'ol .bmp file... ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#3 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:41:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#3 DisplayFusion You can configure the columns to be shown: View - Select columns... - Process performance - I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes
The delta may be interesting too in this case.

Carsten ]]> RE: I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#2 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:15:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128#2 DisplayFusion Where do you see the stats for bytes written? I'm looking in the process properties tab for DisplayFusion and I see stats for "writes" and "write bytes delta" - am I looking in the right place? ]]> I/O over a day https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:24:55 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/io-over-a-day/?ID=a7d355cc-e2cb-495d-ba9b-ff35f0792128 DisplayFusion Hi Jon,

the facts in a short:
- 281 images files
- 177mb
- 0.63mb per file
- different background image for every monitor (2 devices, 1600x1200 and 1440x900)
- DF running since 8 hours and 40 minutes
- background image changes every 20 minutes
- 26 switches until now for today

Today I saw that DF wrote ca. 290mb of data on my hdd. This are more than 10mb per switch! What is DF doing?!
I'm using sysinternal's process explorer:
-- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

DF doesn't slow down my laptop, so it's no problem for me. But maybe you can reduce the written bytes per switch. Maybe it will make some people lucky. :)

Have fun,
Carsten ]]>