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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Yep that was it. I was told that SP3 was imperative for use with Chirp and so that was the
killer for me. I researched this for many hours trying to make everything play nicely and no ne
of the solutions on the web from Microsoft or others was of any avail!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Thanks for confirming my suspicions.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Maybe I will try Chirp again some day on a newer computer. Pity. It looked like it would have
been a nice program, and Dan was very helpful.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">On 11 Mar 2013 at 17:46, Tim Billingsley wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Bry Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com></i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > My XP laptop was so bad after the changes suggested that it would</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> run</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > extremely slowly and could not even run Firefox or Internet</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> Explorer any</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > more.  It was just freezing up. I could not get it to do a system</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> restore</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > either. What a mess it was in. He he. You have to love this</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> technology</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > stuff!</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > After four days of severe problems with this laptop, I finally</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> REMOVED</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > Service Pack 3,</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > Removed Chirp, and bought FTBasicMMO. The problem is now solved.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> Now I am</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> > ready to program memories into the FT857D when it arrives in a few</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> days.</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> </i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> Service pack 3 is a real killer. I have seen it take reasonably</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> functional machines and turn them into paperweights for the most</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> part.</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>> 03/10/13</i></span></font></div>
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