On Tue Jun-18-2019 16:23, Nick Andre (1:229/426) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 NA> On 18 Jun 19  09:28:35, Roger Nelson said the following to Mark
 NA> Lewis: 

RN> I am willing to be proven wrong because I have been before.
RN> 
RN> Bo Nick, if I have been running, as mark says, on a single-core, then I
RN> shouldn't have any problem, should I?

 NA> If you start Windows Task Manager and it reports more than one CPU
 NA> core, then  you should be running using the shortcut I created for
 NA> you; which tells the  mailer to use only one core. 

 NA> The reason for this, is because the D'Bridge code in how it runs on
 NA> NTVDM,  which is the Windows DOS service, is not properly supported
 NA> for multi-core  usage. It appears the system timer is not properly
 NA> emulated or reported. 

 NA> The tell-tale sign of this problem is when D'Bridge hangs (freezes)
 NA> completely at the midnight Auto-Update event. The clock seconds
 NA> freeze at zero. 

That's why Chris had us create a dummy echo to prevent that from happening
and it has worked for years and still does.

 NA> If the problem still occurs with startup delays on Windows 7, then
 NA> we need to do troubleshooting as I mentioned before. I am not
 NA> seeing anything outright  which would be causing this problem to
 NA> happen.

If you want to take another shot at my system, you are welcome to,  My
Intel G2030 is probabaly what made me think it is dual-core.  After I post
messages, the system sends the mail to standby and hangs, but any other
program I want to run will work.


Regards,

Roger 
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