ARev 3.12 locks up in Win95 (AREV Specific)
At 11 NOV 1999 03:52:35PM Tim Henderson wrote:
We use ARev 3.12 in Win95 environment on a Novell NetWare 5 network. One of our stations (we have eight total, including one dedicated indexer) will not allow ARev to be minimized. If the program stays minimized for more than ten to fifteen minutes (rough estimate), it will appear to be totally locked up when restoring.
The machine is a Micron VLX notebook. I have turned off the power management and set the shortcut properties for ARev according to specs. Can anyone help? This is getting to be rather annoying.
Thanks,
Tim Henderson, Systems Administrator
Tennessee Humanities Council
tim@tn-humanities.org
At 12 NOV 1999 12:59AM Steve Smith wrote:
Are you using expanded memory? - try disabling it on the Windows 95
shortcut properties and re-run the application to see if it occurs.
If it doesn't hang, then re-enable the expanded memory on the AREV app Win95 shortcut to a maximum of 4096 kB and run AREV.EXE with the /XM4096 flag set on the command line.
Are there any exotic memory drivers or video drivers enabled?
Steve
At 12 NOV 1999 09:34AM Tim Henderson wrote:
Steve, I'll take your advice on the shortcut properties and see if it helps. BTW, there aren't any unusual vid drivers, etc. on this machine. In fact, I've recently re-formatted the hard drive (for unrelated reasons). The problem I've described in the original message happened both before and after the formatting.
Fingers crossed,
Tim
At 12 NOV 1999 12:20PM Tim Henderson wrote:
Followed up by making the suggested changes to the shortcut properties (i.e. changing memory props). This did not fix the problem, unfortunately. Any others? I'm at a total loss and do not understand why this problem exists on this machine alone (we do have one other Micron VLX configured pretty much the same way).
Thanks,
Tim
At 13 NOV 1999 07:24AM Steve Smith wrote:
I'm sorry that didn't work, Tim.
I'd use the working notebook as a reference point. Look carefully at
(a) the Bios version
(b) the Operating System version (ver at DOS prompt will tell you)
© the AREV shortcut under Windows (check the Conventional memory protected checkbox)
(d) the indexing settings in the enviornment
(e) the drive mappings
(f) virus software or background software
(g) background processes of any sort
Isolate any differences and see if that helps. Recreate the shortcut if necessary. Check the default Windows printer is set.
Steve
At 13 NOV 1999 08:38AM akaplan@sprezzatura.com - [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
This seems to happen more in 98 than in 95, but sometimes DOS programs always end up disabled in the background, no matter what the settings. You need to change the settings again after the program is run.
akaplan@sprezzatura.com
