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- Subject: Re: E/D in Win95 TIP!!
- To: Michelle Pankowski <d9060469@helios.usq.edu.au>
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- From: Gene Michael DeClark <gdeclar@indy.tds.net>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 21:54:25 -0500
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- At 10:16 PM 6/21/96 +1000, you wrote:
-
- >With a shortcut on my desktop to the executor.exe
- >file and the following "Properties" set, you can't
- >go wrong (even with 8 meg of ram).
- >
- >The "Memory" tab;
- >
- >Conventional Memory-Auto
- >Initial Environment-Auto
- >Expanded(EMS)memory-None
- >Extended(XMS)memory-None
- >MS-DOS protected-mode(DPMI)memory-13312
- >
- >And these command line switches;
- >eg: c:\executor\executor.exe -nosplash -nosound -applzone 5m
- >
- Other things that help Executor run more smoothly:
- The "Misc" tab:
- Disable Allow screen saver (After Dark likes to freeze Executor... took me
- quite a while to figure out what was going on.) Also set Idle sensitivity
- all the way to Low.
- The "Screen" tab:
- Set Executor to run Full-screen (saves Windows 95 from figuring this out of
- its own, which often causes Executor
- to be minimized... some graphics cards have a hard time restoring from this.)
- The "Program" tab:
- Check on Close on Exit (takes one step out of your day.)
-
- Also, I should point out that the DPMI setting above may not apply to
- everyone. With a computer with 8 Meg memory, for instance, setting DPMI at
- 13 Meg can cause more complex programs (like Word and HyperCard) to crash
- Executor. Running executor -info will tell you how much DPMI memory you
- should specify. (I'm also a bit confused as to why the DPMI memory was set
- so much higher than the -applzone... you might as well have left it on Auto
- since the way you have it, you're telling Executor you have 13 Meg of DPMI
- memory, which you really don't, but you're using only 5.75M total DPMI
- memory, which you probably do have.) I mean, I've gotten Executor to think
- it has 60 Meg RAM available to its applzone, but probably 1/3 of my apps
- baulked at this. Ultimately, increasing the DPMI setting allows you to set
- a higher -applzone, which is why you've likely not had problems (with your
- applzone set well into normal range for an 8 Meg system.) I just wanted to
- point out that setting both the DPMI setting and the applzone setting higher
- than what executor -info tells you is available can cause Executor to crash
- and burn. I would suggest leaving DPMI on Auto as well.
-
-
- --Gene
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