Since I originally made this post, I'm sure some of you have since read about how I currently feel about Impulse. I'm of the opinion that Stardock will have to turn Impulse' code inside out and upside down if they ever hope to get it to run efficiently over dialup connections. Adding a refresh button to Impulse compared to that problem seems a trivial, even useless improvement at best, and derisively laughable at worst. Nevertheless, in the hopes of that improvement actually happening I offer the following comments:
Thanks Zubaz... I'll try to remember that the next time it happens. Still, it would be nice to have a refresh button though.
And Bebi, I'll vote for the status bar, too. It seems as if the bottom of the window falls off into deep space when it lacks that extra definition. And it's nice to know what the program is doing after you just pressed that last button, and nothing seems to be happening.
Ausvet... for that matter, have a version check only when the user asks for one. Also, it might not be a bad idea to give the user a radio button series where they can select from among "no automatic checks", "check every x number of runs" or "check on every run".