WOW Question

[Yor Suiris]

We recently upgraded a number of WSs from Win98 to Win2K. We have a 16 bit
DB program that we still need.
On the Win2K machines when a user asks the 16 Bit Program to do a large data
search the user can not multi task where as they could on the Win98.
i.e. While the 16 bit program does it's thing (hour glass spinning) and you
click on another open window the focus does not shift till the 16 bit
program is finished. Which can be minutes sometimes. On Win98 they could
work on something else while the search was being done.
Users do not see this as an improvement.
I tried run in seperate memory. No Dif.
Is there anywhere else that I can change the settings for WOW or otherwise
get this to work as the users are use to?

 

[Bob I]

You could try TameDOS and see if that helps.

www.tamedos.com

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: "Yor Suiris" <[email protected]>
Subject: WOW Question
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:47:36 -0400

We recently upgraded a number of WSs from Win98 to Win2K. We have a 16 bit
DB program that we still need.
On the Win2K machines when a user asks the 16 Bit Program to do a large data
search the user can not multi task where as they could on the Win98.
i.e. While the 16 bit program does it's thing (hour glass spinning) and you
click on another open window the focus does not shift till the 16 bit
program is finished. Which can be minutes sometimes. On Win98 they could
work on something else while the search was being done.
Users do not see this as an improvement.
I tried run in seperate memory. No Dif.
Is there anywhere else that I can change the settings for WOW or otherwise
get this to work as the users are use to?

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Whenever a legacy application has problems running in Windows 2000 / 2003 /
XP, the first
troubleshooting step should be to run it in Compatibilty Mode:

On Windows 2000:
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1. Ensure that you have Service Pack 4 installed
2. Start > Run > regsvr32 c:\WINNT\AppPatch\slayerui.dll
3. Right-click on the executable and click Properties
4. Click on the Compatibility tab, and choose to run the app in Windows 95
Compatibility Layer

On Windows XP:
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1. Right-click on the executable and click Properties
2. Click on the Compatibility tab, and choose to run the app in Windows 95
Compatibility Mode

If you wish to roll-out the individual compatibility fix(es) necessary to
allow your application to
function normally, see the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/compatible/appcompat.mspx



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[George Hester]

I have never known the 16-bit emulation to work well in Windows 2000. The same thing will happen when we go to 64-bit. We will need a 32-bit emulator and expect that to perform similarly as the 16-bit emulator in Windows 2000. Note Windows 98 does not use an emulator.

 

[Yor Suiris]

Thanks Jason, I tried it but it made no change.
Any other ideas?