NT 4.0, applications and system tools

Date:    Tue, 8 Apr 1997 19:11:46 -0700
From:    Kevin Groves <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Apps:Word 97 Slows Down NT4

Findfast is EVIL!

[?] My computer (P133/64MB) is also slow when running Word97 or Access97. It gobbles up the complete CPU, even when the program is only idling. MaybeMicrosft should hire some engineers for quality control. They should have noticed it ...

Use task manager and you might discover the culprit is findfast. Just delete it from the statup group.

Date:    Sun, 13 Apr 1997 19:11:46 -0700
From:    Hans Klarenbeek <[email protected]>
Subject: Word 97 Slows Down NT4

II too faced the evil that is Fastfind spelt backward dniftsaf means evil in southern Yemini :-)

Hmm I was watching my machine get crippled by office 97 every 30 mins or so so I thought it could be fastfind.... however it isn't launched in any of the usual office 95 method not in the registry, win.ini's load= run= or the startup folder.... IT CAN ONLY BE DISABLED IN THE CONTROL PANEL!!!!

Another CPU cycle sucking app!

From: Ed Hansberry <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: >>>RunAway Process NTVDM<<<
Date: Sunday, March 09, 1997 6:30 PM

I was noticing yesterday that my workstation was running VERRY (sic) slow. I check to see what proccess was causing the problem and it was NTVDM.EXE. I remembered running a 16 bit program but thought I closed the process when I exited from the application. The NTVDM process was sucking up all of the >memory and using 100% of the CPU. I know that NTVDM is use to run 16 bit applications. I thought that the process (NTVDM) would go away once an 16 bit application was closed. Chapter nine in the Workstation resource Kit for 4.0 talks about the process (NTVDM)and how to monitor it. I would like to hear from anyone who has any comments/suggestions or a solution to this event. Would this have anything to do with running a process (16bit)in its own memory space?

Just kill the NTVDM. It doesn't go away when all 16 bit apps close. After a few minutes, it will go down to only using 4-5K of memory. I've seen this happen a few times here too (coincidentally a Dell XPS P166s) but I don't think it is a Dell issue. Seen others with similar problems.

Logging off and back on *should* kill the NTVDM unless it was launched by someone else other than the local user.

A good BBS programme for Windows NT

Date:   Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:44:11 -0400
From:   Dennis Landstedt <[email protected]>
Subject:Re: Simple BBS program for WinNT?

I second what Dick Cravens (Ed: agreed hansie) posted regarding ProComm Plus for Windows. I was on the beta team for 3.0 and found it to be a great product. You can't go wrong. I used 2.0 and 2.11 before hand and found everything about it simple and intuitive to use yet powerful, especially being 16 bit.

FREE: HyperTerminal PE 3.0

Date:    Sun, 2 Mar 1997 20:42:39 -0800
From:    "Art McGee, IGC Technical Support" <[email protected]>
Subject: FREE: HyperTerminal PE 3.0

Greetings,

If you use Windows 95, and you tend to use the built-in HyperTerminal program instead of a commercial package like Procomm or Wincomm, you can download a free upgrade to HyperTerminal Private Edition 3.0 at this URL:

ftp://ftp.hilgraeve.com/pub/vendor/hilgraeve/htpe3.exe

I believe that this version will also work under Windows NT 4.0.

Enjoy! :-)

System Software Knowhows...

Editing the Registry From Command Line

Date:  Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:08:59 -0400
From:  Bobby Lee <blee@.....> (anonimity due to comments)

there is a utility included with the resource kit that will allow you to edit the registry via the command line -- regini.exe. If you can't get your hands on it i'll be happy to send you a copy...for eval of course :-)

Create file associations at the command prompt

Date:    Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:47:59 -0800
From:    Val Healey <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Create file associations at the command prompt

Hi All!

Apologies for missing the kernel of this Q the first time.

The answer is below. Just do a cmd /? |more and you will find the info on Assoc.

Cheers

ValH.

CMD [/X] [/A | /U] [[/C | /K] [/Q] string]

/C Carries out the command specified by string and then terminates /K Carries out the command specified by string but remains /Q Silently Carries out the command specified by string but remains /A Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be ANSI /U Causes the output of internal commands to a pipe or file to be UNICODE /X Enables the following extensions: MKDIR creates any intermediate directories in path if needed %* in a batch script refers to all the arguments (e.g. %1 %2 %3 %4 % 5 ...) DEL /s only displays files deleted, not those it could not find SET command invoked with just a variable name, no equal sign or valu e will display the value of that variable. non-executable files may be invoked through their file association just by typing the name of the file as a command. (e.g. word.doc would launch the application associated with .doc ) ASSOC is a new command for adding/display/changing file assocations

May also enable extensions for all invocations of the command processor by setting the following value in the registry to 1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MicroSoft\Command Processor\EnableExtensi ons

If this is done, then the /X switch has the opposite effect, it disables the extensions for that invocation of the command processor.

Note that multiple commands separated by the command separator '&&' are accepted for string if surrounded by quotes

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