rick@jpusa1.UUCP (Rick Mills) (12/29/89)
I have a 10mhz 286 with 1 meg of mem (512/512) and just purchased Windows/286 a week and a half ago. I have the Paradise 16+ and a Nec 3D for video, and the MS bus mouse. Here's the problem - If I run PC-Tools deluxe (5.5) or Catdisk (A disk catalogger) OUTSIDE of windows, and then attempt to run windows sometime thereafter, it crashes the machine and completely corrupts windows to the point I have to reinstall it. Anybody have similar problems? A call to Microsoft was little help - they told me that they are not responsible for misbehaved programs that manipulate the stack and the only solution was to always reboot the machine before running windows. If anyone has had this problem, how have you implemented a solution? I guess my next step is to sum all the files and compare them after a crash to see which one(s) get corrupted - to make reinstallation a little quicker.... Any comments? -Rick Mills -- Rick Mills {gargoyle.uchicago.edu,uunet.uu.net,spl1,ddsw1}!jpusa1.uucp!rick