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From: acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu (Artur Cideciyan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Help! HIMEM.SYS causes key presses to show up as DOUBLE
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Date: 3 Jun 91 17:56:36 GMT
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I use a 80286/12 MHz with 1 Meg of memory & ATI VGA wonder with built
in bus mouse. I am running DR DOS 5.0.

I load HIMEM.SYS only and nothing else, run Windows 3.0. It runs
in standard mode with about 620K at start up. In any one of the
Windows applications (e.g. Calculator) the keys pressed on the
keyboard sometimes show up DOUBLE ... as if a character is sent to
the window for both the press and the release of the key.

Interestingly, if I don't load HIMEM.SYS, Windows runs in real mode
with about 370K memory at start up and the doubling of the keys
pressed does NOT occur, everything work fine.

Any help on the possible reasons will be greatly appreciated.
I also would like to know what I can rule out ... e.g. DR DOS or
hardware or what.

Thanks in advance
Artur Cideciyan
acidec@umbio.med.miami.edu