Lately I noticed an odd delay (1-2 seconds on my relatively imbo PC) that occurred whenever I used Windows Live Messenger. The problem didn't seem to be specific to anything I was doing - in that it happened periodically and was attributable to no specific action.
It would seem that this problem is also being experienced by noobs at here and here.

It seems to be fixed now, thanks to the pros over at Sysinternals (Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell) and their imbo Process Monitor. If anyone else is having similar problems you may find this helps:

The suspected cause of the problem:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections\DefaultConnectionSettings

This key would appear, by the power of logical deduction, to be related to settings defined for Connections as part of the Internet Options (Inetcpl.cpl)

From examining the value of the key (a bunch of random hex), I noticed that changing the following setting in the Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings seems to modify it:



This also seems to stop Live Messenger from lagging.

A word of caution though. This is basically a workaround until the Microsoft interns can make software that doesn't consistently break. Modifying this setting may have broader implications that could impede connectivity elsewhere.

-One of the noobs comments

"I'm tempted to kill myself because of this issue alone."

Can you say "repository", Chris?

Thanks for the reference, Chris!

createrepo man page Wrote:...
DESCRIPTION
createrepo is a program that creates a repomd (xml-based rpm metadata)
repository from a set of rpms
...
EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a repository with a groups file. Note that the
groups file should be in the same directory as the rpm packages (i.e.
/path/to/rpms/comps.xml).

createrepo -g comps.xml /path/to/rpms
...

Source: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/createrepo8.html

P4 Wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation

And how relevant that would be if:

1. Anyone credible consistently referred to repositories in a formal document, conversation or lecture as "repos".
2. There wasn't a more commonplace definition for the abbreviation repo (as in "repo man").
3. It was widely recognized that "repo" did in fact indicate a repository, as evidenced by Google searches for "repo" and "repository".