RssReader on Tosh

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A few months back my Toshiba notebook was rebuilt after about twelve months of use. Most developers and I.T. professionals find the need to rebuild their systems on a regular basis, sometimes far more frequently than annually. It had been running slow, appearing to freeze and took forever to switch between applications.

It was running a treat until the usual set of applications was installed and loaded up. The problem was back and on a fresh build! You probably heard the screams of pain all over Fife. The problem lay with one of the applications, but the usual Windows system tools didn’t reveal any single application that was loading the system. I’d been threatening for weeks to get this sorted but it could be a time consuming operation and I never seemed to have the time to get down to fixing the issue. Today saw it fixed.

It would appear that RssReader is causing the problem. As soon as it is started the system becomes sluggish, unload it and the system goes back to a rocket ship. Looks like all the news feeds will now need to be transferred over to another news aggregator. SharpReader is being favoured at the moment. In fact, it was while testing it that the problem with RssReader was discovered.

Anyone got any other suggestions for a news aggregator for Windows XP Pro?