Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!telly!problem!skypod!spocom!jf From: jf@spocom.guild.org (Jason Bassford) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview Subject: Desqview Not Running Programs Message-ID: Date: Fri, 07 Jun 91 11:08:28 EDT Distribution: comp.os.msdos.desqview Organization: The Spocom Group Several months ago I discovered that Desqview would not run a couple of my programs properly. Either they crashed or I got random dots appearing every once in a while on my graphics screen. I got onto the Quarterdeck Canada support line but was unable to get my proglem resolved. Now I just simply live with the fact that I have to exit DV and turn Qemm off (I have set up batch files for this) before I run the programs. However, as I continue to read messages re Desqview, I keep coming across people who cannot get DV to run programs properly. Some of these problems are solved but some are not, no matter what is tryed. So I asked myself, what could be going on here? I know, for instance, that one of the programs which crashes on me with DV/Qemm (Chessmaster 2000) runs perfectly well on another persons computer with the same setup. Trying to apply certain scientific methods to this question I have come up with an hypothesis. It seems to me that a lot of these problems must be do to the fact that many of us (myself included) are using IBM clones. Quite possibly there could be a glitch in the hardware of these computers which results in these many and inconsistent problems. Because if it's not the software, what else could it be. Anybody out there, if you have a program which simply REFUSES to work with DV and/or Qemm ask yourself this question. Are you using an IBM or are you using a clone? I would be interested in knowing the answer to this. If it's possible that these problems are simply a matter of hardware then (while annoying for the computer owner), it would, nonetheless, dispel some of those many hours of frustration that we have all experienced when we KNOW that something just won't work but keep trying it anyway. Jason Bassford.