[WinMac] Wintel Equivalent of Conflict Catcher

Warren Klope(klopew[at]creaven.com)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:35:40 -0400

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1) Is there a Wintel equivalent to Casady & Greene's Conflict Catcher on the
MacOS: a marvelous startup controller and conflict diagnostic tool.

Reason for request. After loading several commercial utility programs on a
freshly installed Windows95B with Office 97, WinFax Pro 7.5, and some other
commercially available applications, the system would crash\crash\crash. The
system has: loads of memory -130 MB, 4+ gig HD -60% utilization, Ultra Wide
SCSI, etc.etc.etc. During installation of software, the shutting off of all
the unnecessary software for a clean install is very cumbersome via the
close program window. Also, several software products seems to need a
different version of a commonly utilized DLL. When you load on the Wintel,
it seems that you cannot have different versions available for a startup
program like Conflict Catcher to select from. I am forced to accept or
reject a DLL or similar item at the install time. To remedy this problem so
far I utilize System Commander with two separate Win95B loaded partitions.
One has the normal applications with only one or two utilities. The other
has a minimally loaded Win95B with the backup and several other utilities.
The system is much more stable, but what a waste of harddisk space and its
cumbersome. Using System commander also prohibits me from using virtual
drive software like Gimme Space or Big Disk which may solve problem #2
below.

2) How can I have a virtual C: drive where all the partitions and physical
hard drives appear as one drive.

Reason for request. Windows dependence on absolute paths is cumbersome to
put it mildly. Every time you need to move some application folders which
have a lot of subapplications to a different partition or physical
harddrive, the nightmare begins. Gimme Space or Big Disk seem to be
possible solutions because they offer virtual drive capabilities. Have not
been able to try them due to using System Commander per problem #1 above.

I have asked several of the Wintel "experts" at various sources: University,
Computer Stores, Local School system wizards, etc. I hope you can shed some
light on this.

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