POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WITH MEMORY RESIDENT PROGRAMS: Being able to launch other applications from Contact Plus while in memory resident mode can have problems. If you intend on launching normal (non-memory resident) programs using the F5 key you will be ok. If you try launching a memory resident program, you will most likely crash your machine and lose some valuable information. Do not load memory resident programs after pressing F5 (DOS) key. This will cause unpredictable results and your machine will probably crash. Sample scenario: you hotkey to Contact Plus and then wish to launch DOS by pressing F5. You go to the DOS prompt fine then run SideKick or any other memory resident program. This is the point where your system will probably crash. RUNNING ONE PROGRAM TWICE Do not try running your word processing program twice. The following sample scenario will illustrate the problem: 1) You are running WordPerfect, then decide to hotkey to Contact Plus. 2) You press the hotkey which launches Contact Plus. Contact Plus launches successfully. 3) While in Contact Plus, you decide to write one of your contacts a letter using the F6 (WP) key. The F6 key happens to run WordPerfect again! 4) If you are running WP 5.1 you should get a meesage "ARE THERE ANY OTHER COPIES OF WORDPERFECT RUNNING? (Yes/No)?" Make sure to answer "YES" then select a directory for WordPerfect. If you tell a lie and answer "NO", the machine will likely crash. GRAPHIC PROGRAMS Contact Plus can pop up over many graphic applications. There may be problems with certain graphic applications which change the EGA/VGA palette registers. What will happen is Contact Plus will launch when the hot key is pressed, the graphic screen will be temporarily stored on the hard disk or EMS, Contact Plus will then run. Once Contact Plus is finished, the graphic screen is displayed again. The colors on some graphic programs may be changed, this normally can be remedied by re-displaying the graphic screen. Otherwise, you may not be able to launch Contact Plus while running that particular application. DOS SHELLS and MENU PROGRAMS These programs create a menu-based program selection environment which is more intuitive than the normal DOS commands. To run Contact Plus with a DOS shell, load Contact Plus BEFORE you load the Shell. MOUSE DRIVERS Make sure to load Contact Plus AFTER any mouse driver is loaded. NETWORKED COMPUTERS Make sure that you load Contact Plus AFTER any network driver is installed. LOADING INTO HIGH MEMORY Contact Plus CANNOT be loaded into HIGH memory at this point. WORDPROCESSING If you have an EGA or VGA monitor and are running WordPerfect, you cannot use the extended 28, 43 or 50 line text modes. The memory resident version of Contact Plus will NOT work properly with WordPerfect in any non-standard mode. This is probably true with any other word processor that changes the standard display fonts.