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From: pwilliam@fiver.axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows lock up ...
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Date: 19 Sep 89 11:27:40 GMT
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Is there anyone out there who could give me some insight to the problems
I am having with MS Windows?

I am using a Zenith Supersport 286 with MS DOS 3.21. Mostly I use
Excel spreadsheet from windows 2.03. I am a non technical user.
Every now and again I ask Excel to change the fonts, or print
preview a large document and the egg timer comes up and nothing
happens, no disk accesses, noting. I have left it as long as 20
minutes before rebooting.
The mouse will move the timer round the
screen but thats all. Alt key stroke doesn't work either. Sometimes
it locks up with the cross cursor. The only way out is to reboot.

I suspected memory problems so noe I run Windows with nothing else
I experimeted with gaining access to the 1Mb memory of the
supersport and appear to have come across the emm.sys bug in
MS Dos 3.2. The hang ups continue.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Please mail me as
I am on vacation for the next four weeks and won't be able to read
the network. I will summerise and post anything interesting.

Thanks in advance etc.


Philip

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