Re: what/where are the Vista basics?

["Andy Turnbull" andyt@xxxxxxxx]

Interesting. I had heard before that dos was a memory hog in windows, but
never tested.
I run xy iiia (I can't make iv work well) in a 3-4 year old toshiba laptop,
with about 1.5 megs of ram. After reading this I did ctrl+alt+delete on
windows, selected the 'performance' tab and watched while I opened a file
and wrote something in xywrite. cpu usage shot up to about 90%!
surprise -- but I've kept the thing open while I write this, and usage is
still running 70 - 90% -- and this is a windows program.

I wonder how the old machines got by with somuch less memory?

andy t
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Troop" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 5:29 PM
Subject: what/where are the Vista basics?
I guess I must enjoy the sound of groaning, or I wouldn't be asking
the following:

I've been running XyWrite IV under Vista for about a year and a half
on what was at the time a powerful Dell 1720 laptop.

Strangely, it has taken all this time for me to notice that if
XyWrite isn't running, my CPU usage is around 20% rather than 80%
when it is running. I guess that's because I use XyWrite all the time.

Obviously, there must be some basic things I have failed to set up
properly. Do we have anything resembling a Vista guide? I've done a
bit of a search through the list archives and via Google, not coming
up with anything.


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