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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV386 HOROR STORIES?
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.175049.7921@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 22:50:39 GMT
References: <10900@plains.NoDak.edu> <1991Jun20.141001.27649@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: 'twixt Dali and Dada
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| gus@plains.NoDak.edu (jim gustafson) writes:
| >So, I'm curious about how long it takes to get this software working?
| >(never mind about fancy customizations... Optimize freezes my box)

Optimize would freeze my machine, by attempting to LOADHI the diskcache
I am using (Norton's ncache-f).  Fortunately it would freeze immediately
after a suggestive message, so I caught on to this problem.  Trying this
manually led to the same thing --- ncache just wouldn't work in high
memory.  But wait...  Horror story?  How about...  I can now load ncache
high.  I don't know what changed, I don't know what if anything I did, I
don't know why it didn't work before.  I live in dread of waking up one
day to find that it has stopped working again :(

Also --- it probably took me 3-4 weeks of almost random fussing before I
hit on a combination of parameters (and usage habits) that doesn't cause
frequent Exception 13 errors or frozen keyboards.  Now that I'm there,
I'm quite happy; but Yow! what a headache getting there.