At 09:30 AM 1/17/01 -0600, Robert Brandon wrote:
>
>I don't much like option B, but it does work. There may still be things
>running in the background in Windows (anti-virus, etc.) that will steal
>processor time and mess up CW keying. I've had to use this option on some
>PCs, however, because the parallel/serial card was PCI, not ISA, and DOS
>couldn't see it.
No reason not to use Ctl+Alt+Del to open the task manager, and shut down
everything in background except for Explorer and Systray. That way there's
no background stuff to get in your CW's way. I also have to log off my
home LAN, which is a PITA, but ....
Good caution about the boot disk, by the way. Earlier DOS versions
wouldn't work with FAT32 disk partitions.
73, Pete N4ZR
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