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Subject: Re: FP2.6a and WIndows XP Pro - Problem with NTVDM.EXE
Author: "Richard Kaye"
Posted: 2005/06/30 10:04:17
 
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IIRC FPD, and perhaps other DOS apps, poll the keyboard continuously which can
drive the CPU up. I seem to remember some trick that reduces that activity but
can't recall it at the moment. I believe it involved setting some property in a
PIF...

Peter Cushing wrote:
> Gary Sutherland wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll go back to the customer and
>> see if any of them help. NTVDM does seem to be a bit of a bucket of
>> worms though, eh?
>>
> We get near 100% CPU utilisation on normal workstations running our FPD
> app, unless we install TAMEDOS, which works great.
> I can also run a program that came with our terminal server software
> called DOSBOSS.EXE, which does the same thing.
>

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