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Siva,
As one who is thinking of migrating to W2KPro - how much memory were you
using on yr. Thinkpad.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sivaraj.K" <siva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: Win2K and MS Pro?
> Hi
>
> I recently bought IBM Thinkpad T20 with Windows 2000 preloaded. When I
> reinstalled MetaStock 7.01 EOD version, everything seemed OK at first. But
> then I started to notice some strange behavior with MetaStock
>
> Explorer was about 4 time slower and it appeared as though there were more
> disk i/o and MetaStock was struggling with each counter.
> Intermittent problem of MetaStock "crashing" when File>Open menu was
> selected
> Also after extended use say about 2 hours, MetaStock would "crash"
>
> To confirm this, I reconfigured the ThinkPad T20 by installing Windows
98SE
> and ran MetaStock again.
> The Explorer was back to the normal speed and was able to complete complex
> searches 4 times faster
> No more "crash" when File>Open was selected
> Extended use does not cause MetaStock to "hang" or "crash"
>
> However, I did notice one problem in Windows 98SE though, once a while if
> you select "indicator builder" without a chart opened, MetaStock would
> "crash". This was happening on both my new ThinkPad and Desktop running
> Windows 98SE.
>
> At the moment, I have decided to use Windows 98 SE for various reasons
over
> Windows 2000. I may switch back to Windows 2000 later.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Siva
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:39 AM
> Subject: Win2K and MS Pro?
>
>
> > It's been a while since I had time to watch the list closely, so
> > if this has been done to death when I wasn't paying attention,
> > my apologies to all. However:
> >
> > Suddenly, I need to replace a machine that died horribly
> > when its power supply went bad. Now that folks have more
> > experience with running Metastock Pro under Windows
> > 2000, does anyone know of any reason not to switch from
> > Win 98 to Win 2000? I've been running 7.02 and would
> > upgrade at least to 7.03. Not sure about 7.2 yet.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Owen Davies
> >
>
>
>
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