Looking for relief from the freezing my partner looked at the Autoexec.nt file in Windows\System32 and saw instructions on how to disable Blaster. He remembered that the sound card had given trouble some time back and tried it. I don't know whether it is necessary to run Windows 2000 compatibility at the same time, but he did not want to mess with it once he got results. We had a relaxed Friday after that discovery.

>How did you figured this our?
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>>We got some improvement by disabling Soundblaster in autoexec.nt and running in Windows 2000 compatibility. Can't tell yet how much of relief this brings, but it is not 100%.
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>>REM To disable the sound blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM, specify an invalid
>>REM SB base I/O port address.  For example:
>>REM    SET BLASTER=A0
>>SET BLASTER=A0
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