[600MRG] WSPRX resync question

[John Langridge]

Good info Larry, thanks.

Unfortunately the "on air" machines here in the shack are all Win7.  I have an XP pro box that I use for the occasional nostalgic coding project using Visual Studio 6 but its not in the shack.

I also like MSconfig for modifying the startup/boot process.  Seems to work well across most windows platforms.  Typically the first thing I do is turn off all the garbage that comes turned on, including all the excess media stuff.  Never considered the CD ROM.  thanks for that!

I will hang on to your info here for future reference if I ever decide to fool with 9-x seriously again...

73,

XIQ  




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 From: Larry <larry at w7iuv.com>
To: John Langridge <jlangridge at sbcglobal.net> 
Cc: SHMRG <600mrg at w7ekb.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] WSPRX resync question
 


On 03-Sep-13 9:12 AM, John Langridge wrote:

Good info Larry.  Thank you.  While I realize that every system is a little different, perhaps at some point you could make the hacks that you discovered available for public consumption.  It would at least be a starting point for someone seeking to try to solidify WSPR9.
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John,

You are correct about every installation being different. There is
    no way I can produce a useable "cookbook". I can give some tips to
    point a guy in the right direction. None of this stuff is "plug and
    play", you're going to have to get your hands dirty digging around
    in windows.

All my my real work has been done in Windows XP Pro SP3. For the
    life of me I have not been able to get ANYTHING to work reliably in
    Windows 7. 

In XP, bring up the task manager and look at the processes. You can
    Google each process name (ie smax4pnp.exe) and see if it is a
    process associated with the soundcard in use or some kind of
    multi-media application. Once you have identified all those
    processes and have a list made, you can proceed to the next step.

In XP, the only way to prevent these processes from loading at boot
    time is to hack the registry. I don't do that sort of thing so I use
    a free utility called startupcpl.
( http://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm )

This utility allows you to disable and/or enable those processes you
    don't want to run at boot. if you screw something up, it's just a
    check mark away from fixing it.

Re-boot and see what effect this has had on the various applications.

In my experience, ANY multimedia type application installed on the
    computer will cause trouble with these and other soundcard radio
    applications. That means NO CD players, NO videos players, NO Skype,
    NOTHING installed that uses a soundcard or video except for the
    radio applications on the computer in question.

Getting rid of all that crap fixed more problems than i have time to
    type out here! 

Good luck.

73, Larry - W7IUV