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[WriteLog] Writelog and W 98 operation

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Subject: [WriteLog] Writelog and W 98 operation
From: wb4sq@yahoo.com (Gary McConville)
Date: Thu Aug 14 17:21:02 2003
Dave,

I'm running WL with W98SE on both a 400Mhz cpu with
256M and a 200Mhz, also 256M.  The 200 is a lot slower
but no mouse or keyboard errors.... yet!
You may have both a dirty mouse and 'going bad' kbd.

Gary - WB4SQ


--- Dave L Thompson <k4jrb@juno.com> wrote:
> I am using a W 98 Ver 2 to run Writelog and also do
> the log checking of
> the 2003 CQ 1660 Contests with WT4I Contest
> Directors tools.   At the
> suggestion of Dave K6LL I now also run the resource
> meter which puts an
> icon on the task bar.  The icon has several green
> bars if running OK then
> can go to yellow bars (caution on resources) and
> finally to red bars and
> then you need to reboot and get rid of some of the
> background programs
> running.    With W98 and 128MB RAM (P III 500Mhz)
> the bars stay green. 
> On my 166Mhz PC running W95 ver 2 it does get to
> yellow when I have
> several programs up and run Earthlink/mindspring.   
> 
> I do have two problems that I need to solve.  
> 
> 1.   The mouse gets frozen or lost easily in W98.  I
> understand this is a
> W 98 bug and I wonder if anyone
>        has a fix.   The mouse I use is a normal IBM
> two button mouse.  I
> tried an intelligent mouse from              
> Microsoft and it stopped  
> so often I gave up.
> 
> 2.    This keyboard has started giving double
> letters or numbers ( 66 for
> 6 or nn for n).  It does not do this on the W95 PC
> or and older W 3.1 PC.
>  Is this a problem with W98?   It only happens every
> so often but its a
> real problem logging calls etc.
> 
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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