Question on Program for laptop

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Teresa Skaggs

Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av Teresa Skaggs » 18 nov 2004 14:16:54

I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

Thanks in advance.
Teresa

f/f george

Re: Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av f/f george » 18 nov 2004 14:38:16

How about an older version of FTM? What was running on the laptop
before version 11? Did it run okay or was it a "resource hog" also?
Have you tried buying more memory for the laptop or is it already
maxed out? Memory is the single biggest thing you can do to make a
computer faster, up to a point. When you get above 256 meg for older
computers and 512 meg for newer ones, 128 meg for real old ones,
unless you run memory intensive programs, the benefits are not offset
by the costs.

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:16:54 GMT, Teresa Skaggs
<Teresa1961@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

Thanks in advance.
Teresa

Robert Heiling

Re: Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av Robert Heiling » 18 nov 2004 15:30:41

Teresa Skaggs wrote:

I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

That laptop should be entirely adequate for that use. With a 166GHz
processor it must be fairly old and have perhaps a ~6GB disk drive? My FTM
takes only 42MB, so even including space for Windows, there is a lot of
room left.

Using Windows Explorer, right-click on the C: drive and then click on
Properties. Tell us how much space there is, Total and Free space. I very
much doubt that it is full, but if it is, that wouldn't be caused by FTM.

Bob

MisNomer

Re: Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av MisNomer » 18 nov 2004 17:21:42

Notepad. DOS version of "brothers keeper".

Are you running XP on this machine?

take care
Liz


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:16:54 GMT, Teresa Skaggs <Teresa1961@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

Thanks in advance.
Teresa

Ron Martell

Re: Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av Ron Martell » 19 nov 2004 22:08:12

Teresa Skaggs <Teresa1961@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

Thanks in advance.
Teresa

Try PAF5.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

Teresa Skaggs

Re: Question on Program for laptop

Legg inn av Teresa Skaggs » 01 des 2004 00:08:05

MisNomer wrote:

Notepad. DOS version of "brothers keeper".

Are you running XP on this machine?

take care
Liz


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:16:54 GMT, Teresa Skaggs <Teresa1961@sbcglobal.net
wrote:


I have a laptop, which I would like to use to take with me when
transcribing cemeteries, obituaries and on trips to the libraries and
courthouses.

My questions is, it is only running a 166 operating system and has a
very small hard drive, what genealogy program could I install on it, so
that I can transfer the gedcom from FTM11, so that I can take it with
me? FTM11 is such a resource hog, it fills the hard drive and then I
can do absolutely nothing else with it.

Thanks in advance.
Teresa


I am running Windows98 second edition. It has 40 MB RAM. It is an old

IMB ThinkPad.

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