CA Express/PC Anywhere warning

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

Just a heads up to let you know that V5R1 of CA/Express does not (at least
on my machine) install successfully on a W2K PC that is running PC Anywhere
10.0.  It crashes repeatedly with a generic DLL error. If you uninstall PC
Anywhere first, the CAE installation will proceed smoothly.

Once installed, PC Anywhere does not work reliably. Specifically, you can't
make successive connections to the same LAN remote without rebooting the PC
between connections. This problem only appears on PC's running CAE (V4R5 &
V5R1).

Finally, I'd like to warn you not to even consider installing PC Anywhere
(regardless of whether you're running CAE) on a W2K machine without having a
current Emergency Repair Disk handy. The program replaces certain system
drivers, and if something goes wrong during installation (it apparently
did - but no error msgs), it will blue-screen during the boot process, and
prevent you from starting the OS. Safe mode, VGA mode, command prompt only -
none of them work.


John Taylor