[600MRG] WSPRX resync question

[Brian Pease]

I will be back on the air pretty soon, and eventually on WSPR.  Just now 
I went to http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock and downloaded 
Atomic Clock Sync (free).  It works on XP, Vista, W7, W8; 32 or 64 bit. 
It allows you to set the re-sync interval to anything you wish in 
seconds, minutes, hours,days.  I pressed the Sync Now button and my 
laptop was on time according to CHU.  So simple that even I could do it!
On 9/3/2013 12:54 PM, John Langridge wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
> 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
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