>My machine has a lot of trippy little hardware utilities that supposedly >make life better. One in particular will show you where your pointer is >if you hold down the control key. Another hides the pointer if you are >typing. Also I had my touchpad turned on even though I was using a >mouse. > >I turned all of the above off and all my problems went away. I now have >NO CRASHES where I used to crash down to the metal every fifteen or >twenty minutes. > >Life is good now. > >Jerry Daniels
I don't have any keystroke utilities that "do things" to make life easier. First thing I do when installing a new system, is to strip out a lot of the extras. And turn off a lot of so-called goodies. And delete unnecessaries :-) I quit other programs when I launch whatever program I'm using to develop in. Nothing I know of running in the background. I try to keep the system clean, though of course that doesn't guarantee. Some programs are just plain buggy. I use one Microsnot program and it's buggy as the dickens (Explorer). It leaks memory and whatnot but I'm just so used to the program I hate to switch to Netscape. I don't have that many Control Panels installed, though there are a lot of Extensions. Every Extension where I know what it does and know it's deletable, got deleted. I don't have the crashes in Metacard that I do in Revolution, which leads me to believe it's within the program, and not my system. I was really psyched about the possibility of buying a license, but ah well, I've gotten used to waiting for this *sigh*. The worst of it all is that I loved Hypercard so much, it's just such a shame that they let it go, to where we are migrating one by one to other tools. -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com http://www.gypsygames.com
