[chirp_users] Loading repeater info for Central Florida

Tim Billingsley
Mon Mar 11 10:46:00 PDT 2013


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bry Carling <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would run
> extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet Explorer any
> more.  It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system restore
> either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this technology
> stuff!
> After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally REMOVED
> Service Pack 3,
> Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved. Now I am
> ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few days.


Service pack 3 is a real killer. I have seen it take reasonably
functional machines and turn them into paperweights for the most part.



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