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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:59:03 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: PC issues

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Ben, Steven:

> had I restored the kbdbase.sys before rebooting after the install I wouldn't be
> bothering
> the list. But if something else should be fixed, please tell me.

> If you get to urge in do a fresh install of PC on
> another system, let me know so that we can work out the proper procedure
> to use for a fresh install. I suspect that if you had run the documented
> procedure before rebooting, it would have worked and you would not have
> trapped.

> Didn't reboot until I had installed PC, installed FIX01, applied the
> patch to doscall1 and manually added the suggested line to config.sys.

I used PC for a few years, and it wasn't much more effective than its ancient ancestor
WATCHCAT, which is _free_, and bundled with ECS. (Never tried WATCHCAT with the
add-ons supplied by others, which were said to beef up its functioning considerably.)
In fact, PC was a lot more problemmatical: there were quite a few lockups that it
could do nothing with, and it clashed badly with a few things on my system,
particularly the Reset Desktop feature in UNIMAINT. The last straw for me was when
Stardock dropped all support for OS/2, and announced that this product is *not known
to be compatible with ECS or the later fixpack levels.* (FIX01 for PC dates from
1997, and there was never any followup !)

I switched to the competing CTRL-ALT-DELETE COMMANDER from Perez Computing, which was
at least certified to be compatible through FP-14, and it proved to be a good move.
C-A-D has a couple of quirks that I find to be minor annoyances (and I've not
succeeded in getting the developer to tell me if some settings adjustments might
eliminate them), but overall I've found it vastly more effective than PC. It very
rarely fails to extricate me from a dicey situation when something that is running
goes kerflooey (with NS 4.61 being the most frequent offender), and comes with some
nice extras. I think it's important to have a capable process killer at your service,
and right now this one is the best choice, IMHO.

Jordan

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