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- SYMANTEC CORPORATION - PETER NORTON GROUP 11/25/96
- README.TXT for System Information for Windows 95
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- Thank you for using System Information for Windows 95. This version
- of System Information is designed to run only under Windows 95. This
- version is not compatible with Windows NT, Windows 3.x, Windows for
- OS/2, or Windows emulators such as SoftWindows.
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- Please review this document in its entirety prior to installing
- System Information as it contains late-breaking information that the
- online help does not contain.
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- Contents
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- 1.0 Installation with Setup Wizard and Uninstall
- 2.0 System Information
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- 1.0 Installation with Setup Wizard and Uninstall
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- NOTE: DO NOT install System Information to a folder with a name longer
- than 40 characters. The DOS-based Norton Utilities programs will not run
- properly.
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- Microsoft Office 95's FindFast feature may cause problems with Setup
- Wizard. Installing Norton Utilities while FindFast is running causes
- Setup Wizard dialog-box placement problems (dialog boxes may also appear
- off the screen) and conflict with its initial Windows 95 restart
- procedure. If you experience these problems (or if you are reading this
- prior to installation), you should remove it temporarily from your
- StartUp folder.
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- If you receive the message "Setup has detected an incomplete
- installation," run the file ~SYMSHEL.EXE from the windows directory to
- clean up the left over files. This problem may occur when something
- interferes with the Windows RunOnce handling.
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- 2.0 System Information
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- The Total Windows Memory value (located below the pie chart in System
- Information's Memory tab) is calculated by adding together the following
- numbers:
- total physical memory
- + total current swap file size
- + total current free space on disk
- + total size of all currently loaded 32-bit applications
- The last item is included in the total calculation because 32-bit
- applications under Windows 95 are "swapped out" by flushing them from
- memory, and then re-loading from the original disk image when they need
- to be "swapped in."
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- System Information will report the bus type for "hybrid bus" systems as
- follows:
- VL/ISA is reported as ISA
- VL/EISA is reported as EISA
- PCI/ISA is reported as PCI
- PCI/EISA is reported as PCI
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- It may take System Information an extended amount of time to gather
- information about network resources on large networks.
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- Printing a report while using some versions of Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
- may cause the reversed text headings to print incorrectly.
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- The Multimedia tab cannot gather information about the "cdaudio" MCI
- device while an audio CD is playing. System Information displays "Can
- not gather additional info" when this occurs.
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- For network, CD, and compressed drives, the Disk Usage Selection on the
- Drive Tab is the total size of all selected items as reported by the
- file system. This does not include "slack" space (wasted space because
- of the device's cluster size), so the total amount allocated will often
- be slightly more than the size displayed by System Information.
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- If the Windows 95 Device Manager shows an improperly configured device
- (represented by a yellow "!" symbol), System Information may be unable
- to display the correct information for this device. Also note that Plug
- & Play devices that are disconnected may be reported by the Windows 95
- Device Manager as configured. System Information will likely display a
- disconnected Plug & Play device as configured and active.
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- System Information will identify a NexGen 586 computer as having a 386-
- based processor. The NexGen processor uses a 386 instruction set.
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- To learn more about benchmarking your computer, click Information from
- the System Benchmark window. Please note the following:
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- - CMOS settings can be used to enable/disable the L1 and/or L2
- cache. If the CPU seems slower than it should, verify the cache
- settings.
- - Some variation in the benchmark results is normal. System
- Information is designed to exclude common outside factors, such
- as most hardware interrupts, running applications, disk swapping,
- etc. However, some low level system events cannot be completely
- factored out. These events may cause minor variations in benchmark
- results.
- - Although your computer may be the same CPU and MHz speed as other
- computers, it does not mean that it will produce the same
- benchmark results. Various other factors, such as the type and
- speed of the system bus and memory, and the amount and
- architecture of the memory cache, are accounted for and will
- affect the speed of your computer and the results of the
- benchmark.
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- The option for physical benchmarking is disabled on CD-ROM drives. To
- obtain similar results, manually set the supplemental cache size to
- small and the access pattern to no read ahead for that drive before
- running the logical benchmark.
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- When running the drive benchmark while using the Promise DC4030-VL2 EIDE
- disk controller the system may hang. See the troubleshooting section of
- the controller's user manual for possible solutions, such as using only
- one VESA card in the system.
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- While running Scandisk, you may experience an invalid page fault when
- you click the Details button on the Internet Tab of System Information.
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