AW: AW: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Win2000

[Hessling, Rene]

Bob,

I am not quite sure I understand your suggestion. "Suspend" as I understand
it, is a power management option, that kicks in when the computer is not
used for a certain period of time. I don't see how this could help.

The problem I am dealing with is e.g. when I prepare a manuscript in Word I
have Papyrus running in the background to search and cite references with. I
need to switch back and forth between both applications. Word itself does
not use a whole lot of recourses (at least CPU time). Yet, Papyrus forces
100% CPU usage, which causes everything to heat up, which then gets the fan
going and so on.... all in all this breaks down my battery time to less than
50% compared to "just" using Word the whole time. BTW I tested this the same
situation with other DOS programs and the problem definitely just occurs
with Papyrus! The other programs must be "polling" the mouse and keyboard in
a different way. Perhaps it would be possible to disable the mouse in the
DOS box running Papyrus... 

Rene


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Universitaet Osnabrueck
Spezielle Zoologie
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Bob Barrett [mailto:bob.barrett at adelaide.edu.au]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 7. August 2001 19:38
> An: papyrus-l at rsd.com
> Betreff: Re: AW: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Win2000
> 
> At 11:04 AM 2/08/01 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >I think that it is "polling" the mouse and keyboard, 
> constantly checking to
> >see if the user has clicked or pressed or moused.
> 
> 
> Did the user try to place his laptop PC on "Suspend"? It is 
> available on
> Windows 95 and I suppose later rubbish software. Need to take 
> care that the
> mouse does not move as you click on "SUSPEND" - the bounce sometimes
> re-activates it on mine.
> 
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