Brad,
I was also experiencing long delays with NT 4 SP 5. I unloaded NT and
jumped to 98 and my delay went away. I had been using NT for the past 4- 5
years but have found better performance with Win 98. One of these days I
will try one of the newer generation OS's.
Mike Reagan
EDSI
Frederick MD
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Protel EDA Forum' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Re[2]: Speed problem with Protel 99SE in PCB editor !
> Phil,
> thanks for the tip, but does this effect NT that you know? I am
> running NT4 so I am skeptical that your observations may hold similar
across
> to NT. If you have any suggestions for NT I will try them. For now I will
> query my MIS support person on this type of issue, see if he knows any
> tricks to check out.
> I had a couple of times tried shutting down everything that wasn't
> essential but I still had quite a list of stuff in my NT Task list which I
> had no idea what effect they may have if I shut them down so they stayed
> running. The one thing that I can report is that according to the Task
> Manager only Protel is taking any significant resources, high high 90's,
> every once in a while something elses flickers briefly to 1, 2, - 4% CPU
> usage.
>
> Brad Velander,
> Lead PCB Designer,
> Norsat International Inc.,
> #300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr.,
> Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9.
> Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct
> Fax (604) 292-9010
> website www.norsat.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phillip Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:32 PM
> > To: Protel EDA Forum
> > Subject: [PEDA] Re[2]: Speed problem with Protel 99SE in PCB editor !
> >
> >
> >
> > Even better, at least in Win98, is "msinfo32.exe".
> > Software environment, running tasks, will show you what is running.
> > "Startup Programs", will show you where autostart programs got
> > loaded from. (registry, startup, ect.)
> >
> > "System Hooks" will tell you if anything has "hooked" into (for
> > example handling mouse and keyboard events). Hey Brad, I
> > wonder if the
> > pregnant pause you see might be caused by a secondary program
> > having hooked
> > the keyboard on you? I did see a case the other day where it
> > looked like
> > a popular virus scan utility had hooked the mouse and keyboard... just
> > curious.
> >
> > I believe there is a similar version of a W2k utility which has
> > similar functionality, or this is a sub set of another app in W2k.
> >
> > ---Phil
>
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