use_KeyPress as global setting

Adam Pavelec apavelec@benefit-services.com
Thu Jun 12 16:39:01 2003


On Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:40 AM [GMT-5=EST], Barry Zubel
<barry@zubel.co.uk> wrote:

> If you open Task Mangler and view the processor usage before and while
> you open a dos prompt, you will probably see the usage increase quite
> a lot.

With command.com, yes -- especially when typing.  This is because
command.com is an older 16-bit command processor provided for for
backward compatibility.  However, cmd.exe (32-bit) is extremely less
taxing in the processor usage department, at least in my experience.

--Adam