[GNC] Unhide column

Sun Jul 19 07:32:26 EDT 2020

Thanks David. In my case it’s the disk that’s at 100%, and the problem is firewall related. When the PC starts both my own firewall (Avast Firewall) and Windows Firewall are trying to run, however there’s a windows process that runs that thinks neither is running and in situation just kills the disk so that it’s difficult to do anything.

The latest Windows upgrade has done something that affects Windows firewall so that it doesn’t detect that another firewall is running correctly. Microsoft have sort of acknowledged there’s a problem, as there are many 000’s having similar problems, but are claiming innocence of any change. It doesn’t seem to be related to a specific personal firewall, it seems to be any as others are using other products rather than Avast.

It looks as though it’s the order that the various start-up processes run, as this isn’t always consistent. If the Windows process starts first it then doesn’t detect when a 2nd one starts. If the other starts first then Windows firewall does seem to detect the other is running so doesn’t start.

I’ve got a temporary work around. Start the PC. If it starts okay then carry on as normal. If it has the problem then restart (which can take 20-30 minutes to get the restart option up and then to action) and it usually works okay, though I have once had to restart twice.

I’m moving away from Avast shortly anyway, so hopefully the situation will improve. Until then I only shutdown or restart my laptop when it’s absolutely necessaryJ

Alan A Holmes

From: David Carlson [mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com] 
Sent: 19 July 2020 09:05
To: Alan A Holmes
Cc: John Ralls; GnuCash List
Subject: Re: [GNC] Unhide column

Alan,

If your computer CPU goes to 100% for a long enough time to notice, it will not be reliable to perform any task.  That also goes for disk accesses or any other function.  this may happen if you have several programs open, or if some of them are resource hogs.  Web browsers often hog resources.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 2:40 PM Alan A Holmes <gnucash at alanaholmes.me.uk> wrote:

Thanks John.

I'll forget all about it.

Alan A Holmes

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
Sent: 18 July 2020 20:35
To: Alan A Holmes
Cc: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] Unhide column

> On Jul 18, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Alan A Holmes <gnucash at alanaholmes.me.uk>
wrote:
> 
> Windows 10 Pro Version 2004 Build 19041.333, GnuCash Version: 3.11 Build
ID:
> 3.11+(2020-06-26)
> 
> 
> 
> I've recently been having problems with my system, the system gets it's
> knickers into a twist about which firewall it is meant to be using. The
> system hangs as the disk is 100% active, so the system won't allow me do
> anything. After some effort I'm gradually sorting the problem out, seems
to
> have been caused by the latest Windows 10 Version upgrade, but I ended up
> running full virus scans, malware scans, getting rids of cookies etc., and
> used Spybot to get rid of anything remotely suspicious.
> 
> 
> 
> A consequence of doing all the above is that when I started GnuCash it had
> forgotten about all my open account tabs, and column widths within those
> tabs. No major problem re-opening the tabs and adjusting the column
widths,
> just an inconvenience that's not the fault of GnuCash.
> 
> 
> 
> However one thing I noticed is that when I opened my "Cash-in-Hand"
account
> there was an extra column to the right of "Balance". I think it might have
> been called "Rate", but I'm not certain. I was resizing all the columns in
> autopilot mode and accidentally moved the right hand border of this column
> to the left with the result that it's now zero width. I want to resize the
> column but I'm unable to do this, as when I grab the most right hand
border
> it just resizes the "Balance" column.
> 
> 
> 
> I've tried deleting the account tab and re-opening it, and it opens it
with
> the new remembered settings.
> 
> 
> 
> How can I resize this column please, so that I can see what it is. I might
> not want it even when I have resized it, but I'd like to see what it is.

You actually do want that column to remain hidden. It's for GnuCash's
internal use.

Regards,
John Ralls=

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