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[hwheeler43]

I just uninstalled 4.08 off of my old Toshiba laptop and installed it on a New Dell Inspiron 1525 with XP Home. It is not a high end laptop, but it works great with 4.08. One minor thing is that I did not see all the changes in the manual that were there when I printed the manual for Hoster version 3. I made all the changes in the new manual for XP and I had a problem with audio dropouts when minimizing the Singers database or the song search window. I grabbed my printed version of the manual and did all the DO THESE Items in the Troubleshooting section and the problem is totally gone. I ran a show Saturday night from 6PM until Sunday morning at 1AM and it was flawless. I am not sure if I am putting this in the correct place, and I also may have overlooked something in the new manual. I do think that Admin should take a look at the new manual to make sure these changes are still in it. It could help those using cheap laptops like this. They will work with integrated video cards. My system ram is 2 gb. As always just trying to be helpful.

[hwheeler43]

Also My internal DVD drive works great on the Dell. That really made my day.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

I just uninstalled 4.08 off of my old Toshiba laptop and installed it on a New Dell Inspiron 1525 with XP Home. It is not a high end laptop, but it works great with 4.08. One minor thing is that I did not see all the changes in the manual that were there when I printed the manual for Hoster version 3. I made all the changes in the new manual for XP and I had a problem with audio dropouts when minimizing the Singers database or the song search window. I grabbed my printed version of the manual and did all the DO THESE Items in the Troubleshooting section and the problem is totally gone. I ran a show Saturday night from 6PM until Sunday morning at 1AM and it was flawless. I am not sure if I am putting this in the correct place, and I also may have overlooked something in the new manual. I do think that Admin should take a look at the new manual to make sure these changes are still in it. It could help those using cheap laptops like this. They will work with integrated video cards. My system ram is 2 gb. As always just trying to be helpful.

Did you check the list on line for XP? http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/xp-changes.htm

[hwheeler43]

Sure did. There are about a dozen more in the old manual that are not included there. Most folks may not need them, but it really made a difference in my instance. I have seen a few folks having similar issues and thought maybe it might be something to look at. Sorry, but I cannot remember what all the changes were right now. I can look it up at home and give better info if needed. Sure was nice having the internal drive working for my last show.

[ddouglass]

Might be better if you posted them because I don't print any of the manuals and I don't think Admin keeps them either.

[Ed Beram]

I just bought a new HP 3 gig RAM 2Ghz Intell proc. laptop [vista] to replace an under-gunned Gateway with less than 1 gig RAM. One thing I haven't figured out, I built the song data base by clicking "add" it took about 3 hours to load 58 thousand tracks to the newly upgraded 4.08 from the old 4.03 Hoster lite software. When the 58k tracks finished loading it then automatically went into "merge" and I just let it do its own thing and let it run its course and that took another 3 hours. But when it came to the end it wanted to run all over agian. I hit cancel and it shows a small number of new realease in the bottom black box with green numbers in it. After stopping it I called some zip songs into the playlist and lo and behold the song played without a problem. This was a problem with the old 4.03 and the under-gunned Gateway which wouldn't play the zip files. Also a window came up that said that there are files zip files that need to be converted to KMA and that it would take one to two seconds per track. I calculated it would take 16 hours minimum. Since the zips and the cdg's are playing fine should I just leave well enough alone? Am I going to have a problem later if I don't run it the 16 hours?
Ed