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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Nadeau" <dave_nadeau@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: RE: e Signal and MS 7.03


> I've had just the opposite experience.  I recently went to W2K, clean
> install of everything after reformatting the harddrive and converting to
> NTFS.
>
> Previously, I had Win98SE.  I had those problems frequently with Win98SE.
> Four reinstalls of MetaStock 7.03 didn't help.
>
> Now, with W2K, I still have that problem, but it's been very
> rare....<fingers crossed>.  I collect only 7 symbols in real time, but I
> have a layout with 6 charts, a decent sized Expert, as well as three
> moderately calculation intensive Custom Indicators being plotted.
>
> This was certain to choke my Win98 setup.  For the last three weeks, it's
> happened only once.
>
> Dave Nadeau
> Fort Collins, CO
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of iamken
> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:42 AM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: e Signal and MS 7.03
>
>
> I just installed Win2k over the weekend.  As usual I left a layout open
> over night.  This morning Metastock was hung.  I had to force it to close.
> Metastock would not reopen.  The problem was resolved when I closed File
> Server and Data Server.  (I had to force Data Server to close.)  So maybe
> Andrew is correct about Data Server.  I did not have this problem in
Win98.
>
> iamken
> --
>
> Allan Havemose wrote:
>
> > Theo,
> >
> > briefly. I worked with Equis support for weeks on the problems. We
> > never figured it out. They never offered much other than "reinstall
> > everything", so I eventually gave up on them.
> >
> > win2k: I believe it's officially supported starting with 7.02. Win2k
> > was known as NT 5 back in 98 and early 99.
> >
> > I've even reinstalled Win2000 (including reformatting the drive),
> > installed all service patches, Metastock, eSignal etc. The
> > instabilities I described have persistet. The simplest way to make my
> > MS hang is to load up 10 charts in real time, add a stoch indicator and
> > wait. Within a minute (often less) MS will stop updating the graphs and
> > Win2k will report MS as hung (which it is).
> >
> > If you load up a few charts in off line mode and select "restore
> > workspace" in the settings, MS will often have a similar hang when it
> > loads the charts (in offline mode).
> >
> > Allan
> >
>
>
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