Another excellent program is Ad-Aware from Lavasoft. It caught a few
spyware program that Spybot missed.
W0ETC
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:55:47 -0500 "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
writes:
> This is a follow-up to a message I sent in reply to William W4RM's
> original
> post. I got several replies, mostly direct, on things I could look
> for to make
> the HP Pavilion 6646C I'm now using the B radio run faster and
> better. The
> only real thing this has to do with WriteLog is that this PC is
> dedicated to
> WriteLog as a contest PC and does little else, so I want it to work
> like a charm.
>
> Being somewhat familiar with PC's, especially running Win98se, I had
> already
> did a lot of things suggested like optimizing the HD with Norton
> etc. The one
> thing I've done that has seemed to help the PC the most was to get
> rid of all
> the spyware on the machine. I came up with this one on my own when
> I came
> across a bunch of stuff in the Program Files directory I didn't
> recognize. I
> did a Google search on them and discovered I had a lot of spyware.
>
> I downloaded Spybot and ran it and found 37 or so spyware programs
> on
> the machine. Once I got rid of the spyware, the machine started
> acting somewhat
> normal for a 500 mhz processor with 312MB RAM but I'm still not
> totally
> satisfied with it (I still think my 333 Pentium II with 128M RAM ran
> better). The
> 6646C machine has an AMD 6 processor and it's the only non-Pentium
> machine
> I've ever used with Windows so I really don't know if it's the
> processor or I
> still have work to do on the machine.
>
> The only thing I haven't done yet, and hope to do, is to replace the
> 64M DIMMS
> in memory slot 1 with a 128M DIMMS to match the 128M DIMMS in the
> other
> 2 slots. I don't know that will drastically improve performance.
> Before I do this,
> I want to test the PC in battle this weekend in the SCC RTTY
> Championship and
> see if it reacts significantly better than it did in SARTG.
>
> Running Spybot did significantly improve the performance of the
> machine after SARTG.
> I have to admit I had a little difficulty with it at first but once
> I figured it out, I was
> able to eliminate a lot of Internet JUNK off the machine. Spybot is
> freeware software
> for eliminated spyware. I'm not actually recommending it, but it
> sure helped in my
> case.
>
> Comments direct appreciated.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
> To: "William Omara" <w4rm@comcast.net>; <writelog@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WL and MTTY page fault in SARTG contest
>
>
> > First upgrade to MMTTY version 1.65 and see if the problem goes
> away.
> > It's going to be hard to tell now that the contest is over but
> there's another
> > contest in 2 weeks (SCC) and will be a good time to test.
> >
> > I had the pleasure of using a new PC in the shack today. It's an
> HP Pavilion
> > with a 500 mhz Athlon CPU with 312MB RAM. I've owned it for
> several
> > years but it was the first time I got to use it as a radio PC. I
> had to install
> > Writelog, MMTTY and the MMTTY plug-in and configure everything
> from
> > scratch. I did it between the 2nd and 3rd periods in the contest
> using just
> > single transmit/receive with the MMTTY plug-in because I need to
> install
> > more COM ports. All PC's in the shack run Win98SE.
> >
> > The reason I started using this PC was because my older 333 mhz
> machine
> > would lock up and get Rttyrite9 errors when transmitting with the
> MMTTY
> > plug-in. I had to resort to using a DXP38 to transmit with and
> MMTTY in
> > a 2nd receive-only window. This setup just did not get it. MMTTY
> runs
> > circles around the DXP38 most of the time. I never could figure
> out what
> > the problem was with the 333 mhz PC, so I just retired it.
> Believe me, I tried
> > everything I knew of and some I didn't, to try to get it work over
> the past
> > year or so to no avail.
> >
> > Anyway, the new PC acted sluggish. Longer than usual steady
> carriers before
> > and after the buffers were sent, etc. So I started making some
> changes to MMTTY.
> > When I set the Priority to Normal in the TX tab of MMTTY Setup,
> the PC
> > started acting a little better. My trusty reliable 200 mhz PC on
> the other radio
> > is set for Higher. I checked the resource meter in the new
> machine and it was
> > showing 59%. I did a CTRL-ALT-DEL and got rid of everything that
> did not
> > pertain to WriteLog and was not vital such as Explorer, etc. The
> resource meter
> > only went to 60%, but all of sudden the new machine came to life
> and was no
> > longer sluggish. It acted just like the 200 mhz PC on the other
> radio even though
> > it has 312MB of RAM (the 200 MHZ has only has 96M). The 200 mhz
> machine
> > was running 60% also, but had two RTTY windows open, the MMTTY
> plug-in,
> > DXTelnet and Norton virus software. So something is still hogging
> memory in
> > the new machine. I will try to find out what it is. Stopping the
> Norton stuff helped.
> >
> > Conclusions? Get MMTTY version 1.65. 1.64 had problems with
> WriteLog.
> > Free up resources by closing stuff taking up memory. Play with
> the Priority setting
> > in the TX tab. Try disabling your virus software, but that's
> always risky if you
> > are connected to the Internet.
> >
> > Damn that was a fun contest, eh?
> >
> > 73, Don AA5AU
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Omara" <w4rm@comcast.net>
> > To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 9:08 AM
> > Subject: [WriteLog] WL and MTTY page fault in SARTG contest
> >
> >
> > > I was trying to operate the SARTG using WL and MTTY plug-in.
> After less
> > > than 10qso the program closed and gave me a MTTY Page fault in
> the
> > > WINMM.DLL file. I upgrade MTTY to V1.64 from 1.63 and still
> have the
> > > same problem. This time it took about 30 minutes and 15 qso's.
> But
> > > still the same problem.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if I problem is in MTTY or in my Computer? WL
> did not
> > > seam to be the problem, just the MYYT plug-in.
> > >
> > > Thanks Bill W4RM
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