Stardock Systems recommends at least a 486DX-33 with 8 meg of RAM for using Object Desktop. It is important to note that I have not been able to duplicate this problem. Speaking with other Object Desktop users, they reported to me that they still experience some lockups when trying to access certain network drives. You can download the fix from Stardock's homepage or through their new FTP site. Since installing the fix on the different machines, I haven't experience any lockups with any mixture of applications that I've thrown at it. Manufacturing line, quickly solved all of the lockup problems that I experienced. The fix, which by the time you read this should have made its way into the Still, Stardock promised a fix and quickly delivered upon it. Since many lockups occurred when I was using only OS/2 software, I was a little wary of this explanation. Stardock claimed that much of these problems were due to a bug with running DOS or WinOS2 sessions. I installed Object Desktop on several different systems for this review, a 486DLC-25, a 486DX-66 (both with 8 meg of RAM) and a Pentium with 16 meg of RAM.Įvery system that I installed Object Desktop on started to experience lockups that didn't happen before the instal. The end user should carefully look over what they expect from it and how it will perform on their system. However, along with these enhancements come several performance hits which users should be aware of before they purchase the product.

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