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Re: HP's Dashboard

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From: Jim Edwards-Hewitt
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35
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The only problems I have seen with Dashboard (on a Northgate 486) were:

Installation programs that try to create program groups or add icons do not
work and may lock up (MSC7 and Windows SDK, for example).  I presume this
is because Dashboard does not handle the DDE messages that Program Manager
does.  This is a serious oversight on HP's part, but can be worked around
by switching back to ProgMan before running a Windows-based installation.

Dashboard gets confused if you have sub-groups with the same name under
different groups (it brings up the same group for both, even though it has
created group files with unique names.)

I have not seen any of the problems that you mentioned, and I have been
using Dashboard exclusively for about two months now.

>WEIRDNESS : i know of a person who uses an HP VECTRA and dashboard an he
>             thinks i am crazy because he does not see these problems.  
>            that is, it was probably created on an HP VECTRA and not really 
>            tested with a host of hardware configurations.

I think it is more likely a conflict with other software than with
hardware, but I don't have any specific suggestions.

	-- Jim

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Jim Edwards-Hewitt        jim@visix.com | Aieee!  Death from above!
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