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- From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
- Subject: Re: Norton Desktop
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.215910.6682@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug28.010830.11380@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:59:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.010830.11380@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> shayden@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Sean Lee Hayden) writes:
- >I've got a few qestions to ask about Norton Desktop:
- >
- >1.) Is there anything i can do to make it come up faster? It sure seems like
- > it loads my entire drive up before comeing on. (* sarcasm *).
- > I don't have any programs in the startup or anything like that. It
- > just "boots dry" and it still seems very slow.
- >
- Well, it depends on what machine you have and what version of NDW you have.
- I have a 386-25, but I have 8 megs of RAM, a Diamond Stealth card, virtual
- memory driver for QEMM, and I limited the size of my swapfile. NDW runs
- pretty well (oh, and I have NDW 2.0)...it chews up alot of my resources, but
- I have no problems with its speed.
-
- >2.) You Norton'ers out there: Do you use anything to make your life easyier?
- > Like: I can't stand the fact the the drag/drop always COPIES instead of
- > move like the FILE MANAGER use to do.
-
- If you drap/drop to the same drive, it will move the file...if you do it to
- another drive, it will copy it.
-
- When you drag/drop, press the Alt key and the + sign on the document icon
- will appear or disappear...depends on where you are dragging it to. The +
- means copy...no + means move. (or vice versa...my brain is fried..)
-
- >3.) Also, The icons seem to be slugish when i select them and also when i
- > select the options like LABEL. It just doesn't work somethimes. Is
- > this a bug?
-
- Beats me...
-
- >4.) If there is a bug fix for Desktop where can i get it.
-
- The only bug fix for NDW is get a faster machine...:-)
-
- >And another Question not related:
- >
- >I download ALOT from my school and i use KERMIT. I have PROCOMM FOR WINDOWS
- >and it sure seems to be slow. I only average about 100 character/sec?? maybe
- >bytes/sec..Whatever it says when downloading. (* anyway *) Is there
- >something else i can use besides KERMIT? Or someway i can make it Faster???
-
- Hehehehe..kermit...go to any decent ftp site and get zmodem....you may
- have to compile it...it allows you to download with the zmodem protocol
- (along with X and Ymodems). Depending on your modems' speed, you should be
- able to exceed 100 char/sec easily!
-
- Hope this helps...
-
- Mario
- "Norton Desktop for Windows NT....I hate Program Manager!"
-
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