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Article #1887Re: HP's Dashboard
From: Jim Edwards-Hewitt
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Edwards-Hewitt jim@visix.com | Aieee! Death from above! Visix Software Inc. ...!uupsi!visix!jim | -- Sam&Max ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!viper!news From: jim@visix.com (Jim Edwards-Hewitt) Subject: Re: HP's Dashboard Sender: news@visix.com Message-ID: <BzzCv1.Kwp@visix.com> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35:24 GMT Reply-To: jim@visix.com References: <1992Dec20.020754.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 30