Re: NumLock under W2000 and XP

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Martin,

As I wrote you privately (but may be of interest to the group), I followed
up on one of Robert's leads and got DOSIDLE, a program that is supposed to
do something similar to what TAMEDOS does. My CPU usage does seem to be
entirely reasonable now, judging by what I see in Task Manager's display.
Would it be inappropriate to ask David Thomas if TameDOS has advantages
over DOSIDLE?


--Harry

> I wrote to David Thomas, the author of TameDOS, regarding the flashing
> NumLock indicator that sometimes occurs when running Xy4DOS under W2000
> and XP. His response is below. I don't have an answer to his closing
> question---I haven't isolated the conditions under which the problem
> arises---and haven't had time to test his suggested registry change.
>
>
> Message from David Thomas:
>
> "By default, Tame does toggle numlock in order to correct a problem with
> Windows handling of the numlock. Perhaps this is causing a problem. It may
> be disabled by setting a registry value.
>
> Registry values can be effective system-wide, or only for specific users.
>
> The key named HKLM\Software\TameDOS contains system wide values, and
> HKCU\Software\TameDOS contains user overrides.
>
>
> To disable the numlock toggle, select the user key or the system key,
> create a REG_DWORD value named ResetNumlock and set it to 0.
>
>
> If that does not help, I am willing to look into it. Can you suggest an
> approach that can reliably duplicate the problem?"
>
>
> --
>
> Martin J. Osborne
> Department of Economics
> 150 St. George Street
> University of Toronto
> Toronto
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> Canada
> http://www.economics.utoronto.ca
>
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Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx