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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:55:00 GMT

macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
>In article <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
>>Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?  
>>

>Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
>drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
>take a tad bit longer.  Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at

That depends on your system speed and your drive speed.  It has to
read less off the disk, so you save time there.  If your system
"unstacks" the data fast enough, it's a net gain.  I've seen it work
both ways, it varies from system to system.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: chchang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chieh chang)
Subject: Re: wcc.zoo: Change your wallpaper every couple hours
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:32:13 GMT

In <1992Aug25.122654.47.comp.os.ms-windows.announce@pitt.edu> chchang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chieh chang) writes:

>I have uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu a file "wcc.zoo".

>"wcc.zoo" contains two files:
>wcc.exe and wcc.wri.

>wcc is written by Cheng-Shun Wang.  It's freeware.  This program can 
>change your wallpaper after a specific time interval.  The wallpaper
>is randomly chosen from the path specified by the user. You can also 
>set different frequencies to different wallpapers so that the number of 
>times to show a certain wallpaper is configured by you.

>chchang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

First, I'm not the author of this program.  So please do not ask me for
source code because I do not have it.  I found it's a very cool
utility and it's free, so I'd like to upload it to share with others.

Second, I've been told by the author that this program has only been
tested on Windows 3.1.  

Chieh Chang
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: QVTNET on notebook?
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:05:22 GMT

mikeo@spider.co.uk (Mike Overton) writes:

>I am using qvtnet on my notebook, which has a standard notebook style
>keyboard. The program, believing it to be a 102 key enhanced style,
>keeps locking the keyboard into num lock mode. This means an 'l' ends
>up as a '3' etc. Although I can turn it off with <shift>+<num lock>,
>the program seems to randomly relock.

>Anyone have any ideas about a setting to prevent this?

Have you tried adding :

nl_mode=unlock                    # num-lock key locked or unlocked


to your .rc file?  I'm using 2.7.
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Win 3.1 in real mode
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:59:46 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

This has been nagging me for a long time.
Supposedly Windows 3.1 does not support real mode, and will not
work on XT's.

Assuming that Standard or Enhanced mode require the presence of an
XMS driver, it seems pretty likely that during the installation
process Windows is quite capable of running in real mode.

After the initial DOS-mode configuration screen, Setup launches
Windows and continues the installation as a WinApp. Suppose you
have no HIMEM.SYS loaded during that time. The installation
proceeds just fine (I've tried). Isn't it running in
real mode? Huh? Inquiring minds want to know!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 07:28:52 GMT

In article <rdippold.715236097@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
>>Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.
>>dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Oh, the wonders of accidentally leaving yourself logged in.
>-- 
>Hey!  Who took the cork off my lunch?!

Either that, or Mystery does not understand what advocacy means VS
miscellaneous...


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Password protection
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:45:33 GMT
Reply-To: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Distribution: world
Organization: DaytonOH.NCR.COM

In article <5684@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM$> mlowery@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Mike Lowery) writes:
$>
$>Does anyone out there know of a method for password protecting
$>Windows 3.1?  I know about the password for the screen savers,
$>but what I want is one for the whole system.
$>
$>By the way, I was shocked to learn that the easiest way to 
$>defeat the screen saver's password protection was to re-boot,
$>re-start Windows, and simply reset the password in the Control
$>panel.  Some security.
$>
$>----Mike

One workaround, at least on the MicroChannel machines I've seen, is to use a 
password at bootup.  This can be accomplished with your reference diskette.
Boot up with the reference diskette and check the menus for the password
choice. Every time you boot up, you will have to supply a password before 
your machine even starts to load DOS.

Another possible solution is the screensaver Intermission, which will not allow
you to reenter Windows after bootup without supplying the correct password.


Good luck!!!


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Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2671 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23249
From: callaci@bcserv.wustl.edu (Callaci (Tom))
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help:Fax96(DOS) under Win3.1enh
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:30:42 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcserv.wustl.edu
Summary: I need help with Soft/hardware for Fremont's Fax96 under Win3.1enh
Keywords: windows, fax,

     I am running win3.1 on a 386 and I am having difficulties with the
software and hardware for my fax board, which is a Fremont Fax96 with Frecom 
fax96 and "One-Liner" software..  The first problem occurs every time the phone

rings. The TSR portion of the software notifies me that the phone is ringging 
and begins to monitor the call.  Windows locks up at this point and all key 
strokes are sent to a buffer and not printed or carried out until the phone 
call is over.  I would like to be able to cancel the telephone monitoring as 
the software is designed to allow.  My keystrokes need to be sent to the TSR 
program, but how?
     The second problem is using the board with win3.1 in the enhanced mode.  
The manufacturer claims WIN3.0 enh does not allow high speed  communication 
with the board.  The board is configured on I/O port 280, IRQ interrupt 5, as I
understand it.  The software detects that win is in enhanced mode and does not
allow me to send a fax.  How can I override this?  Does win3.1 support the
needed communication processes?  Thank you for your help.  Please send
responses to callaci@bcserv.wustl.edu.  I will post a summary of replies.


Tom
Newsgroups: su.ibm,su.computers,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: chetter@leland.Stanford.EDU (chet pager)
Subject: W4W Macros
Keywords: W4W Word Wordstar
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 20:35:10 GMT

	** Please email responses to chetter@leland.stanford.edu **

Word for Windows 2.0a is supposed to be great.  It does lots of stuff, and
you can customize it pretty nicely.  So I hear.  I am *very* attached to
the WordStar commands, mainly because I type quickly and don't want to
move my fingers to stupid places.  I've got this great .emacs file which
makes emacs just like wordstar.  So I'm wondering, has anyone out there
developed some way to make W4W understand wordstar control commands??
Even the over-write mode and pull-left delete?  If there's anything like
this out there, could you send it to me?  I barely know how to read news
or anonymous ftp, so sending me email (in English) would be greatly
appreciated.  Thank you.  chetter@leland.stanford.edu
From: odriscod@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WinSpeed for Windows (HOW DO I GET IT)
Date: 25 Aug 92 22:10:07 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

Hello poeple and aliens if your reading this.

I am looking for the Australian Distributor for Panacea's Winspeed
for Windows 3.1 (Yes I read that guff about it being pd, I know it isn't)
So can anybody tell how the hell I can buy it in Australia, I went to my 
local software shop and they where up to their usual standard and said
"Huh ??? Winspeed for Windows what's that ???"

So any info on how I can get it would be most appreciated.

Thanks
David O'Driscoll

email address as follows
odriscod@jasper.ucq.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama)
Subject: Brother HJ-770 Win 3.1 drivers ?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:37:08 GMT

Where  can  I find  Brother  HJ-770 (same  as Canon  BJ-330  or was it
BJ-300, anyway - the A3 thing) drivers to use with Windows 3.1?

-harri-
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From: wct1+@pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 4.0
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:29:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <xzanx7j.ergo@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

>
>That may be more true than you think.  Supposedly NT will run on a
>386/33, but I've heard that the x86 version is behind schedule.  NT
>might lay an egg if it spend too much time as a MIPS-only OS!


Nah.  The developer's pre-release NT already runs on the Intel
platform (if you have the right SCSI CDROM, right video, etc.)
	Its awfully slow on a 386-33, but this is only a
pre-release.  
	The beta schedule has been pushed back a month (Surprise!).
Its now due for release in OCtober.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Rob Ekkers)
Subject: Re: WinQVTNet and PC-NFS?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:46:09 GMT

ken@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>Why on earth would you want to? PC-NFS includes telnet, FTP, etc, etc,
>running under windows. Best of all, it includes a DLL interface to the TCP
>software to let you write your own TCP client programs..

I think that WinQVT's terminal emulator is much better than PC-NFS's.
Besides, PC-NFS Telnet is not a real Windows program, but just a DOS
box. Also, WinQVT has a nice FTP server, and so there are more reasons.

What I really want is a product that has the best qualities of both!

Rob Ekkers
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

PS. What about PC-NFS's 60K+ driver??

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: walls@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls)
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 16:08:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
>In article <Sep.2.08.09.51.1992.3949@ratt.rutgers.edu> andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
>>
>>Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?  
>>
>
>Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
>drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
>take a tad bit longer.  Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
>once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive.  I keep all
>of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
>Desktop.
>
>>
>>TO increase my performance, I disabled the RAMDISK and gave the memory
>>to SMARTDRV.  I installed Stacker to increase (double) the size of
>>SMARTDRV's cache and decrease the size of files on the disk.  But,
>>adding an ATI Ultra also made a gain in speed.  Not as much as I
>>expected, however.
>
>Once again...your caching has to be decompressed and recompressed before any
>action is taken.  If you're running a 486-50 there probably wouldn't be any
>problems...but for me and my 386-25...I would rather keep any disk i/o 
>intensive action away from Stacker.
>
>Mario

very interesting.  on my ancient 386-20 no-cache I notice no system
speed differences using Stacker.  I cache the uncompressed drive with
Smartdrive which increases the actual sectors cached, meaning more actual
disk sectors are in memory, increasing access speed.  I'd rather my
computer take the time to compress/decompress than take the time
to light up my disk light.
From: roger@uvmark.uucp (Roger MacNicol)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: calendar starting on monday?
Keywords: calendar,microsoft,ms-windows,sunday,monday
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:46:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: uvmark.1992Sep01.164653.35017
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.

In article <BtuxIG.DMq@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>
>Get someone here to send them to you across the Atlantic.. all calendars 
>in the US start weeks on Sunday without exception. So do out pay periods
>9-)
>
>Don't know what filofax pages are though  9-)
>

Filofax is the English (original) name for products like Dayrunner etc 
(six-hole loose-leaf PIMs).  In the UK you can buy perforated computer
listing paper in this format but I have not seen it for sale over here - 
does anyone know of a US supplier?

- Roger


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 Phone: (508) 879-3311, Fax: (508) 655-8395
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows... again...
Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 11:48:55 GMT


In a previous article, timvih@polaris.utu.fi (Timo Vihersaari) says:

>If you have 8 MB of RAM,
>use 2 MB of cache and don't win allow to swap! The use of virtual memory
>makes win to slow down. And if you have enough memory, you may use a ram
>disk and load some parts of windows there.
>

How do you not make WIndows swap?  I had seen references to setings in
SYSTEM.INI but didn't copy them down.  I apologize for asking this
question again.

Ashok
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: packet driver bombs windows 3.1 - solved
From: Stephen Gibson
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:06:30 PDT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 


In article <3SEP199213024557@zeus.tamu.edu> sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu (MCCLUNEY, STEVEN ALEXANDER) writes:
>Thanks to everybody for the advice - the main fix involved setting
>the RAM base address to E000 (for some reason D000 froze the system).
>The memory chart in my ethernet card manual implies that the range
>c800- is free, but when I used this value DOS slowed down to a snail's
>pace, and Windows still locked up.  BTW, what is the syntax for
>excluding a memory range with EMM386?  My DOS and Windows manuals
>don't mention this option.  Thanks a lot!
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>| Steven A. McCluney                 |"Strange women lying in ponds    |
>| sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu              | distributing swords is no basis |
>| I'm a grad student, so my opinions | for a system of government!"    |
>|    are worthless anyway            |          Dennis, to King Arthur |
>------------------------------------------------------------------------

The syntax for excluding a memory range with EMM386 is:
DEVICE=[path]EMM386.EXE X=????-????
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
where ????-???? is the range you with to exclude (e.g. 
x=B000-B7FF).  You should probably exclude the same range for 
Windows in the SYSTEM.INI file

[386Enh]
From: twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Keywords: Mine Sweeper, Cheating, Chance
Date: 23 Aug 92 20:24:01 GMT
Organization: PE-Nelson

Well, I came into this thread late and am curious -- what is the method for
cheating (excuse me, "luck" removal :-) in minesweeper?

As for the argument that there is no luck in the game, I agree with the
statement that, at least at the expert level, one routinely finds situations
where one cannot logically deduce the location of a mine and is left with
a 50/50 chance of uncovering it.  Here is my attempt to show one such
example (based on a previous posting):
. . . . . .
. m 2 2 m .
. 2 - - 2 .
. 2 - - 2 .
. m 2 2 m .
. . . . . .

The playing area outside of this "island" is irrelevent only to the extent
that there are no mines in the "." squares, there are two possible solutions:

   m 2 2 m      m 2 2 m
   2 m . 2      2 . m 2
   2 . m 2      2 m . 2
   m 2 2 m      m 2 2 m

And I, at least, cannot see how this situation lends itself to a logical
deduction.  At least twice I've gotten to this sort of situation, the mine
counter down to 2 and I have to guess -- BOOM, *&#%$!.  Now when I see this
kind of situation develop I guess right away rather than waste time clearing
the rest of the minefield only to blow myself up.

I would, of course, only use any method of cheating to avoid these kinds of
situations ;-)


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner)
Subject: Re: ET4000 (4/16)/ColorView (5/27) Drivers Identical (NOT QUITE)
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:55:00 GMT

mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz) writes:

>For those of you who are wondering what the difference is between
>the ET4000 drivers dated 4/16/92 and the ColorView Drivers dated
>5/27/92, I just expanded the drivers and compared them using the
>FullAlias option of Duplicate File Locator 3.11s. They're exactly
>the same.

The .DRV files are the same, but some of the support files (VDDs,
grabbers, etc.) differ.  VDDTLI4.386 from the ET4 set is *not*
identical to VDDTCI5.386 from the colorview set, etc.

My measurements (using WinTach and WinBench) show the Colorview
drivers to be a few percent faster, no doubt because of improvements
in the support files.

Richard
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij)
Subject: Need help with Faxit
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:45:44 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

Recently my brother in law purchased a FAX/MODEM card. (Faxit for windows)
He installed it, and after a few difficulties : a conflict with the mouse(COM1) with the card (COM2) , 
he could run it from windows, by assigning it to COM4.
BUT... it still does not work in windows, the only thing that works is the modem software "QuickLink II".
And when a Fax is about to be transmitted, windows crashes.  

System: 386DX 25Mhz Windows 3.1 Enhanced Mode
Mouse on COM1:


Could someone who also owns such a modem tell what he did wrong???
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: omk@jyu.fi (Oiva M Kuittinen)
Subject: HELP: Designer pics in WP docs
Summary: Missing lines in printouts
Keywords: Designer, TIFF, WordPerfect, PostScript
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:37:36 GMT

I draw pictures with Designer 3.1, export them to .TIF (or .WPG) format,
include these graphics in WordPerfect documents and then print the
documents using a PostScript printer.

My problem is the following:

.WPG pictures take up very little disk space but seem to print unreliably
and are not so nice to look at. .TIF picture printing works - that is,
most of the picture area is printed correctly most of the time - but SOME
PARTS OF GRAPHIC OBJECTS ARE LEFT UNPRINTED. This is especially true, but
not limited to, the uppermost parts of the picture - for instance, the
top of a rectangle is missing.

What should I do to correct the problem, or is there indeed anything to
be done (except making all the lines thicker etc.)?

Please reply directly to my account.

Oiva Kuittinen
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sybesmer@uther.calvin.edu (Eric W Sybesma)
Subject: Help! Windows.com doesn't work!
Summary: Help!  Windows.com doesn't work
Keywords: windows.com
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:42:36 GMT

After reading in PC magazine that I could change the startup screen
merely by replacing the vgalogo.rle with another rle file, switching
to another video driver in SETUP, and then switching back to my original
video driver.  After doing this, I get a message that says
"Can't run Win.com"  (or is it Windows.com?).

	Please help, I want my MSW!

	E-mail at sybesmer@uther.calvin.edu

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