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Are there remnants of any Symantec programs running, in the background.
That caused an insurmountable problem with WOW; the only solution to which
was the complete uninstallation of all Symantec programs, and the WOW
software.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Hodge" <rphodge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: 6.52 (and 7.01 EOD!!!) crashes very often on Windows 2000
> I'm running MetaStock 7.01 on a 4 month old machine with 256 meg of Ram. 2
> - 8 Gig SCZI hard drives (IBM). Brand new video drivers (adjusted the
> registry when I deleted the old ones). NT 4.0 SP4. Etc. etc..
>
> And with no other Apps open. 7.01 crashes about every 30 minutes. 6.52 was
> worse, and even less functional if that is possible.
>
> Furthermore I have an identical machine running 6.5 sitting right next to
> the one running 7.0 and it never crashes. And yes when I complained to
the
> Tech support gentleman he tried to hand me the 'video drivers story also.
> When I told him mine were brand new, he sputtered and mumbled something
> about video drivers needing updated once per week!!
>
> And I definitely DON"T think it is worth the upgrade especially since
there
> are so many other bugs. I NEVER take a brand new upgrade from these people
> cause they are always so full of bugs. But this time I had no choice cause
> of the stunts they pulled with their data format and Y2K.
>
> I was forced into 6.52 and when it turned out to be a catastrophe. I
> (foolishly) took them at their word that 7.01 had fixed the bugs. What a
> joke. They are not even aware of all the bugs yet.
>
> And now I finally have a response from tech support from my first bug
> report, and guess what. The P variable is broken and won't be fixed until
> some 'later release'.
>
> What does that mean??
>
> How am I supposed to trade in the mean time?? Until this 'later release'
> appears?
> And what does 'later' mean?
>
> Question -- can I go back to 6.5 if I dump Reuters as a data vendor and
use
> someone else? And does anyone know who that someone else would be?
>
> Ray
>
>
>
>
>
> At 11:41 AM 4/6/2000 , you wrote:
>
> >I'm running 6.52 on Windows '98, and haven't *ever* had Metastock crash.
> >I've had this configuration for a year.
> >
> >For those of you who are crashing, how much RAM do you have, and
> >how many other applications do you have open?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Friends,
> > >I thought that it was my old computer (& WIN95) that was causing the
crash
> > >problems.
> > >Perhaps we should go back to our old DOS versions of MS, until Equis
can
> > remove
> > >the bugs.....?
> > >Larry
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >At 05:15 PM 04/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >>Lynn,
> > >>
> > >>I have completely removed 6.52 & register keys. Did a fresh
> > >>installation of 7.01 EOD on Windows 2000. I only use local
> > >>hard disk data. Unfortunately, Metastock still crashes.
> > >>
> > >>6.52 crashes very often, about once every 20 securities.
> > >>MS 7.01 is slightly better, about one crash every 50-100
> > >>securities. It crashes when I scroll through securities
> > >>using the arrow buttons at the lower right-hand corner.
> > >>I've used Windows 2000 since Beta 3 (April, 1999).
> > >>MS 6.5 is so stable, I don't even recall any crash.
> > >>The problem starts with MS 6.52. And now it seems
> > >>MS 7.01 still has the same problem.
> > >>Any suggestion is appreciated.
> > >>
> > >>Thank you very much.
> > >>R. I.
> > >
>
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