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From: Christopher Brooks <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] lockups
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:30:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200203101101.g2AB1kf02260@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Lorna McIntosh wrote:

:I do like the product, but is anyone else having trouble with FTST
:freezing, and taking MS Word or Outlook with it?
:With a fairly large project (approx 30,000 names), it takes a
:while to load and I'm getting sick of rebooting to clear memory,
:shut everything out and try again, and again, and again.

That used to be my experience with Win 98 and 128 megs of RAM on a P3
machine. FTST took up to a minute and a half to load, frequently
froze when trying to compile large indexes (i.e., initializing the
picklist), and absolutely would not run side by side with TMG 4. I
very nearly abandoned the product altogether.

During the holiday season, I upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional
("Win2k") and added 256 megs of RAM. FTST now works like a charm,
neither crashes nor hangs, and loads a 31,000-person dataset
reasonably quickly (about 20 seconds). I recently built a
15-generation, 3x7 foot descendant chart in VCF which involved having
TMG, FTST and VCF open together around the clock for a solid week.
This would have been inconceivable with Win98.

Software -- everybody's, not just WG's -- continues to get larger,
more complex, and more demanding of resources. In addition to adding
RAM, I would consider one of Microsoft's DOS-free operating systems,
which run each individual program within its own memory partition and
are thus much more stable than the 9x releases. These are Windows
2000 Pro (really NT 5.0), Windows XP Home, and Windows XP Office (or
is it Pro?). (The XP products are equivalent to NT 6.0.) NT is
Microsoft's "industrial" line of server products.



Chris

Christopher Brooks
Franconia, NH

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