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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Abrupt exit
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:33:30 -0500
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I spoke too soon about not having abrupt exits :(

I created a LOP for people who have a tag with a particular source and more
than one citation on the tag, to eliminate that source where there is a
better one. I opened tags on about 20 people after I sent the message below
and either removed the source, excluded it or just cancelled and exited the
tag. In the last few people I looked at, the screen refresh wasn't quite as
quick, and it took fractions of a second longer to see the mouse pointer
again. The last tag I opened, I decided I wanted to leave that source
unchanged, so I hit the ESC key and had an abrupt exit.

I didn't just upgrade the memory because of this issue, so I am still happy
about the upgrade, but it seems that it didn't help the abrupt exit. As I
have 1.9 GB of memory available, that's clearly not the issue :)

Next time I reboot, I will look at the BIOS setting for video memory
allocation.

Cheryl Freeman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Abrupt exit


> Hello Virginia and all,
>
> I just upgraded my PC's memory from 512MB to 2.5 GB (not just for TMG, but
> also for movie editing). I have the usual number of applications open
> besides TMG, and I have been alt-tabbing away for about 10 minutes, and
> not a single abrupt exit has occurred. One thing I am noticing is that
> when I alt-tab back to TMG from another application, the screen redraws
> quicker. It's a subtle difference but it used to take fractions of a
> second after I alt-tabbed before I actually had TMG in the foreground
> again, and now it is instantaneous. I am really leaning toward memory as
> cause of abrupt exits with alt-tab; expecially since I figured out that
> my PC does not have dedicated video memory. Peformance makes it pretty
> obvious that there's less writing to the swapfile. I have TMG, IE,
> Outlook and Excel open and 600 MB of memory is in use, which is 88 MB more
> than I used to have in total. :)

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