From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

In my system (800Mhz, W2k) the cpu usage popped to about 7% for half a
second, and then settled back to the usual 1 or two.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> Do me a favor, open TaskMan, then go to the command prompt and open
> Edit, and report back what you observe.
>
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:02:25 GMT, John Beckett
>  wrote in message
> :
>
> >Ellen K.  wrote in message
> >news::
> >> 1.  If you open a DOS program, the CPU zooms up to 100% (ergo slowing
> >> everything else down) until you close it.    I think this one is pretty
> >> well known.   You can see it for yourself by opening edit from the
> >> command line.
> >
> >Opening Edit would not do this. There are *some* programs that behave as
> >Antti explained, but in general DOS programs do not have this effect
under
> >NT/W2k/XP.
> >
> >A more likely explanation is that you had the IPX network procotol to
talk
> >to some Netware servers, together with the Client Service for Netware.
For
> >some incredibly stupid reason, that really can foul up 16-bit apps under
> >NT/W2k.
> >
> >Actually I'm changing my mind because I just read your other post about
> >this, and I see the app was Clipper. I have no knowledge of Clipper
> >internals, but it is quite possible that it is one of the few apps that
> >the operating system has trouble taming in the way that Tony mentioned.
> >
> >John
>

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