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■If you insert an object (such as a clip art file) into a Microsoft OfficeXP
application, and the original object is stored on a file system drive or a drive
mapped using \\localhost\path, the insertion will not work correctly.You
needto move or copy the object to your C: or D: drive, and then insert it into your
document.
■Using Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path names to locate Office 97,
Office 2000, or OfficeXP files, such as \\localhost\export\home\
myfiles.doc, does not work in this version of the software. This is a known
issue that is being investigated.
For more information about file system drives, refer to “File System Drives” on
page129.
Microsoft DirectDraw Performance Issue
Microsoft introduceda new suite of graphics engines known collectively as DirectX,
and one of these components is known as DirectDraw.Because the SunPCi internal
display is based on the X Windowsprotocol and does not have direct access to the
Solaris platform’s graphics adapter,DirectDraw functionality was disabled by
default in older versions of SunPCi software. Many newer software suites, such as
Office XP,enable DirectDraw by default.
DirectDrawis enabled by default. However, with DirectDraw enabled, Windows 2000
and WindowsXP Professional might exhibit poor graphics performance, either in
somespecific applications or in specific applets in the base operating system, such as
in 3D screen savers.
If normal performance of the 3D screen savers is required, or if graphics
performance degraded after installing SunPCi III 3.2.1 software, you can disable
DirectDraw by doing the following:
1. Add the following line to the [Display] section of the SunPCi .ini file:
2. Restart the SunPCi session.
[Display]
...
DirectDraw=off