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Re: Trade Station Pro Help memory usage SOLUTION FOUND



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Griffin" <jack_2231@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Fred Gomez" <fgomez76@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: Trade Station Pro Help memory usage SOLUTION FOUND


> I've solved the problem without buying more RAM on
> each of the machines I ever run TS Pro on.  The
> problem is that when you load help from within
> tradestation under Windows 98 it brings up a browser
> from a dos-like program whose primary purpose is to
> put an icon in the upperleft corner of window that is
> different that the Internet Explorer icon.  That
> program doesn't ask for enough memory initially it
> seems.
> 
> The solution I found was to bring up help by
> bookmarking
> http://tradestationpro.com/education/06_01/help/ 
> .  It seems to result in less memory usage.  So even
> if you gave 100 Gigs of RAM, I recommend avoiding the
> help feature supplied by the program and instead using
> a browser.  Of course, as I pointed out in my original
> post, buying more memory than should be needed would
> have also solved problem.  Thanks for everyone who
> gave advice. 
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> --- Fred Gomez <fgomez76@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Wait, you are running TSPro with only 64 megs of RAM
> > and you don't have 
> > Win2000. There is nothing Tech Support could do to
> > remedy your memory 
> > problems with that combination. Go out and add more
> > RAM and go to Win2K. 
> > Problem solved.
> > 
> > 
> > >From: Jack Griffin <jack_2231@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >Subject: Trade Station Pro Help memory usage
> > >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:38:08 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > >Hi Gang,
> > >
> > >Whenever I open up the help window in Tradstation
> > Pro
> > >I nearly run out of memory.  Hard disk then
> > thrashes
> > >nearly on each keystroke (well maybe not that bad,
> > but
> > >you get the idea).  I called tech support but they
> > >were useless as predicted.  My possible guesses for
> > >solutions include changing settings on the cache in
> > >Internet Explorer, changing other parameters of
> > >Internet Explorer, switching to Netscape, switching
> > to
> > >Windows 2000, and of course buying some more ram
> > >(currently only 64MB).
> > >
> > >If anyone has noticed this on their machine and
> > found
> > >a way to reduce the memory consumption of the help
> > >feature of TSPro please share what you found.
> > >
> > >Jack
> > >
> > >
> > 
> >
> > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at
> > http://explorer.msn.com
> > 
> 
> 
>