[Ham-Computers] NTVDM.EXE & CPU UTILIZATION

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I run a commercial acccounting package (SBT-7) for our personal finances as 
well as keeping up with my radio collection and any sales.  The code (but hot 
the underlying dBase) has been extensively modified to cater to military radio 
nomenclature, TM's and etc. but that has nothing to do with my problem.  The 
database engine is dBase 5 (for DOS) (I own both the 16 bit and 32 bit versions 
of dBase but have never gotten around to doing the conversion).  The DOS 
verson ran fine under Windows 3.11 and NT 4.0.  It runs fine under Windows 2000 as 
well except that it currently pushes the CPU utilization to an average 24%.  
I have one XP machine here and on it the utilazation is around 48% sometimes 
hitting 50%.  The name of the program that is using that much is NTVDM.EXE.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how to reduce this?  I have the shortcut 
set up to run a modified version of AUTOEXEC.NT and CONFIG.NT.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480