From: "Richard Adamson" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:49:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: multitasking gives blank screen In-reply-to: <002401c0fe83$b30209c0$5d08e289@mpaul> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <20010702195628.INJR287.mta2-svc.virgin.net@leo> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Sorted! Everything works! I am baffled, but happy :-) Ive been fiddling with the utilities you sent whenever Ive had a chance, and I started to get strange results--taskmgr worked perfectly on some (rare) occasions, otherwise not at all. What it came down to was that once or twice I had run the _TASKMGR utility *before* installing TASKMGR, by mistake, and (getting an error message) then installed TASKMGR. On these occasions, it worked (even the hot keys / menu--I didnt find this out straight away because I wasnt experimenting with them anymore.) So now, with _TASKMGR in autoexec before TASKMGR, everything works. And it *is* doing two things at once eg pkunzipping in background. (I havent got much installed yet to test...) If this seems doubtful to you, please be assured--I dont know much about computers but I have been methodical and careful, and thats how it is. Im extremely grateful for your help, and of course, if you want me to experiment or try specific tests to satisfy any curiosity you have about this, Im at your service. Thanks also for the configuration tips, and keyboard driver. havent had time to implement them yet, but Im working through them to try to understand them. Id always intended to try the freekeyb driver--the MS-DOS thing was only a temporary fix while I was trying to get the system working. On 26 Jun 01, at 20:40, Matthias Paul wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Please find attached some utilities to list TASKMGR task > from the command line. They should be self-explanatory. > I would be interested if they list the tasks correctly, > even if the TASKMGR menu does not work. You may also > be able to work around the menu problem by unregistering > it (/R:0 IIRC), and then switch tasks using these utilities.