Hi Walter, It seems my configuration is similar to yours which is now pretty stable. I can't really explain in detail how stability was achieved...didn't write it all down! Of course, no-one can guarantee success without any kind of diagnosis, so you can't be sure whether such forum tips will solve your problem. CFTW is probably not the cause of your problem, but rather your configuration. How much disk space is free, for example? Have you allocated a fixed amount of Swap space (virtual memory) or have you left it variable as per Windows standard? Have you done a defragmentation? recently? 1. If you have a Pentium 2, then you may have to install the Intel patch PIIX4 for Windows 95/Intel Bus Master IDE Drivers 3.01. I suppose your machine should have been delivered with it installed, but mine wasn't, apparently. A Diskette came with the computer. 2. Have you tried bringing your Windows 95 configuration up to date by downloading Microsoft's newer service release et al? One of the biggest stability improvements, if I remember correctly was achieved, with version 2.x of Winsock (Crashes had been occurring while I was on line) 3. Sandra 2000 from SiSoft (Freeware for private use) I found to be very useful to diagnose my system. It gave me a whole lot of tips which I followed (except the one to update my BIOS!) and which resulted in better stability and performance. Greetings Harvey Nimmo > >Hi, All. Here's one for you. > >Apparently, I must be the only guy in the world having trouble >with CFTW. If you >will remember, I wrote to the list once before. I'm the guy who >keeps getting >crashes when CFTW is running. I have tried to discover some rhyme >or reason for my >problem, but it seems that almost all crashes involve CFTW in one >way or another. >These crashes usually happen when Microsoft Outlook Express (which >I loathe and >despise) is running simultaneously with CFTW, but not always. >Sometimes CFTW >crashes when it is the only program running. I love this program >and I would hate >to have to switch to another one, but I've just got to find some >answers or I am >going to be forced to take that most undesirable step. > >Recently, a friend of mine loaned me a copy of an older version of >one of the >biggest--if not THE biggest--commercial genealogy programs in the >States. Sad to >say, I have had no crashes with it--whether Outlook Express is >running or not. >Naturally, I don't like it as much as I like Cumberland, but if >these crashes >continue I'm afraid I'm going to lose more of my data than I >already have, and >something is just going to have to give. Perhaps someone on this >list has some new >suggestions. If so, lay on MacDuff. I'm all ears--both literally >and figuratively. > >I have the 32-bit 2.50x version of CFTW, which I have upgraded >once or twice from >the Cumberland web page. I use a Compaq 4508 Presario computer >with 2.98 GB of >hard drive and 48 MG of RAM (updated from the original 16, I >think). This computer >also has an Intel Pentium 200MHz processor with MMX technology. I >realize that >this is a rather outdated model, but I am not in position to buy >another computer, >so I'll have to make do with the one I've got. Anyhow: I also use Microsoft >Windows 95 and a continuously running Norton 4.0 anti-virus with >the latest virus >definitions. (At one time, I thought this older version of Norton >might be causing >my problems, but I disabled it and, unfortunately, got the same >results. So I >don't that's the cause of all my woes. Darn it!) > >If anyone has any ideas at all, please respond to this message. I >am legally blind >and simply do not wish to change genealogy programs at this time. >As a person of >very limited vision, I find Cumberland to be an exceptionally easy >and uncluttered >program to use. So: any help would be very greatly appreciated. In >short, please >help save a fellow CTFW user from having to make the switch from >"our" program to >one of those "other" programs. > >walt boswell >[email protected] > >P.S. I too think that Ira should be the leader of the free world! >He's the best. > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Erik Helmer Nielsen" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:58 PM >Subject: Re: [CFTW] CFTW is the Best > > >> On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 I read >> >> >CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no >exception. >Thank >you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly >excellent >genealogical program. >> >> I feel sure that all readers of this list can agree to that. >> >> But why are we Users of CFTW then so few and why is CFTW so >> little known by the genealogy public in general. >> I often see listings, surveys, mailings and articles about >> genealogy programs where CFTW is not even mentioned. >> Programs, which in my opinion are much inferior, get a lot more >> publicity, and they have more Users. >> >> Let us all make some efforts to promote our good program. >> - show it to all our friends, >> - demonstrate it at meetings in our associations, >> - write articles about it in our genealogical magazines, >> - publish it on some of the free CD-roms added to PC magazines. >> >> Let us all do our best and let us raise many new Users each of >> us. When we succeed in that, we may allow ourselves to say that >> the program we like is also worthy to be called the best. >> >> Erik >> >> >> ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >> You can contact the List Manager at: >> [email protected] >> >> ============================== >> Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >> Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >> > > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >You can contact the List Manager at: >[email protected] > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >