Ben I followed your instructions to a Tee... I had removed the Master Cook program.. reinstalled it.. unchecked all the unnecessary things at start up.. The program still tells me that.. resources are low.. At this time I think it is a glitch in the software.. I am looking for the latest version of Master Cook 7.0.. but have not been able to find it yet.. Thanks so much.. I now have another problem I am dealing with.. it's my scanner.. will write about that in another post.. sigh..
Thanks Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Moore To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program I don't see any reason that the program won't run. You hardware is great. Your resources are a little low at start up but not extremely low. Try going to run on your start menu and typing in msconfig. you'll get a dialog window with a bunch of tabs on it. Go to the start up tab and try identifying what those programs are and then unchecking one at a time and rebooting and then trying your program. Things like system tray and power profile you need to leave running. If you just installed a new mouse and it had software that came with it, that program should be listed there. Try unchecking that too. I'm not sure that is going to find the cause but it's something to try. Have you added a whole bunch of recipes to Mastercook? Is you data file very large? I working from a very poor memory here of Win98 but some of the guys that do have Win98 currently should be checking in later. Just to answer your question about WinXP. With your hardware I think you would be better off running WinXP. It is a significantly better OS than any of the Win9x systems. Unless you have some program that requires Win98 I can't see any reason not to upgrade. You don't get low resource warnings either. But to install it and do it right you really need to start fresh and reinstall everything which is a real pain. I think we ought to try to fix this first. Ben Moore -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liz Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program Ben.. Yes it did work.. up until a few days ago.. I tried reinstalling MC .. but that did not work either.. Tried opening with a backup disc I had made of the program.. that did not work either.. ------------------------ List of programs running.. C:\Program~1\Grisoft\AVG6\AVGSERV9.exe C:\Program\AVG|AVGCC32/exe C:\Windows\Realtime.exe C:\Scanregw.exe Windows\System|SSTIMON.exe Windows\System|ZoneLabs\VSMON.exe Windows\Syustem32\Drivers\dcfssvc.exe ---------------- Pentium IV 512.0 MB RAM Free Space 2.00GB Geniune Intelx86 Family 15 Model 2 stepping 4 -------------------- Resources System resources 69% free User resources 69% free GDI resources 86% free ---------------- I installed a new roller mouse.. Hope I answered all your questions.. Thanks so much for your help. Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Moore To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program It did work at one time, I'm assuming. Either there is something wrong with the program or you have too much stuff loading at boot. Have you installed anything new lately, just before this started happening? Have you tried reinstalling MasterCook? Reboot your computer and when it's completely up, type ctrl,alt,del and you should get a list of running programs. Why don't you send us a list of those? You should also have a program called resource manager somewhere on your start menu. Right after you boot. Start it and let us know what it says. One other possibility, your database in Mastercook just may be too big. It might help to know a bit about your hardware, processor, memory, HD's and free space. Ben Moore -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liz Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program Ben I tried that before writing the list.. but it still did not work.. Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Moore To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:56 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program What happens when you reboot your computer and try to use Mastercook before doing anything else? Can you import and export then? Ben Moore -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liz Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PCWorks: Unable to use MasterCook program Hi All.. I am not very computer savvy.. I will need step by step help.. LOL.. I am having problems using my MasterCook 6.0 program.. I am able to open it up.. up can not import or export recipes.. or open the ones that are already on the program. There is a screen that comes up when I try to use.. saying that my resources are dangerously low.. Does anyone know how I can resolve this problem.. I have thousands of recipes on this program and can no longer get to them.. sigh.. Also I am using Windows 98SE.. Will switching to XP help my problem.. if so.. How do I go about switching operating systems.. will everything on the old automatically switch over to the new O.S.? Where is the best place to buy XP from?? Thanks so much for your help.. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
