I had 4 Red Squirrel Tools running every time I started VRPC-SA. They were keeping each other very busy resulting in up-to 80% use of the processor time (in the module area). Although animal lovers may object I used to kill 3 of them, not knowing what they were doing anyway. This resulted in Number 4 usually keeping rather quiet.
At the last BigBenClub meeting one of our experts, Kees Grinwis, found that Red Squirrel Tools was loaded every time StartWimp was called. He then introduced in the !Boot.Choices.Boot PreDesktop obey file a line at the end setting an "Alias RSTools_StartWimp" (without the quotes) with the comment: does nothing. In addition he introduced an obey file with "%RSTools_StartWimp" (again without the quotes) in the !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks. The result is: only one Red Squirrel and a rather quiet one at that.
Although some people may object to this kind of birth control (and Kees considers it to be a not-very-elegant solution) it solved my problem in population control in the module area.
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