I'm not having any problems with the program, stick with it, the payoff is great. Perhaps it is an issue with the feeds themselves--not all of them are compatible right off the bat. Try contacting the author, he's very responsive: he actually updated the application when the feed from one of my favorite sites wasn't working. I've also limited the number of days to keep. It really can take a long time to update the feeds, so that keeps the update time reasonable... EDIT: Feed Circuit is stand-alone, you don't need to be using your RSS feed reader at all. I don't use the RSS reader so I really don't know. But, perhaps trying to use them at the same time or sharing resources (it sounds like you were trying to somehow use feeds already set up for your RSS feed reader for Feed Circuit, they really should be set up and cached independently) might be causing the problems...