Tsr???

hi there,
well it is a general missconception that TSR are allways a virus or programs used for fry'ng up the MoBo's , Crashing of hard drives, Smok'in cards and burnt monitors,
but... is there any other side of coin, how a TSR can be useful.
(All this is for my knowledge because i want to start learning TSR programing and i don't want to call any trouble.)

lokeshdb_ms

Hi lokeshdb_ms

You have an old man wallowing in nostalgia..........TSRs :D

It means "Terminate and Stay Resident"

Basically some DOS or ASM proggy that loads into RAM and stays there.............a bit like a windows "service" these days.............

You can kill them by finding them and renaming them .txt or whatever............just ignore the error message when you reboot

;)

They are not "malware" as such, just very old technology? :D

thanx for that nihil,
but are there any present day (good) applications left for TSR,
or simpaly can TSR be use for some.... usefull... thing.

Lokeshdb_ms

IMHO,TSR only have a meaning one a monotask O.S, such as MS-DOS. Since current PC O.S. are multitask, your program can load on memory and just stay there. You can even write those programs on VB, for example. ;)