Howdy-Tzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > So I returned to my Classic extensions manager and started looking > for likely culprits.
> And THEN I took a close look at my third-party INITs. There were > about a dozen Microsoft extensions, all having to do with OLE. > > Oho. Well OLE lets you *drag and drop* objects from one doc to > another, embedding code, links, references, etc. -- say, a > spreadsheet inside a Word document. > > The operative term here is "drag and drop". > > Aha, thinks I, I'll purge these too. Did it. > > While it didn't totally nuke the problems, it does seem to have > increased stability considerably. When I installed OS 9.2 on my X machine (completely clean install of both) I took care *not* to install MSIE or MSOE. As you have discovered, while these inits might make Microsoft's apps behave the way MS want, they tend to make everybody else's apps run dreadfully. If you can afford it, have at least one Mac which is uncontamintated by MS extensions. Better still, keep all your MS apps on only one Mac and keep any others 'clean'. Feel the difference. Those extensions contribute greatly to the instability of OS9. And the horrors continue; So far, the only time I've had to force-restart OSX was because IE went into a dead loop. Every other app responds to a 'force quit' from process watcher. I don't think this is the problem that we are hunting, however. I only just got 8.5 myself, and my Classic installation is OS 9.2.1, so I can experiment a bit... [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
