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August 3rd, 2001, 04:33 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
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I've seen it recommended that any system running Windows be restarted daily,
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You mean you can get windoze to run for more than 5 hours without crashing? Wow...
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August 3rd, 2001, 05:07 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
Um, I use Windows 2000. 
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August 3rd, 2001, 05:43 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
One of the major problem of win xx is memory leak.
Use an app like memturbo for reorganize/get back the memory lost.
Also w2k sp2 is the more stable win Version.
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August 3rd, 2001, 06:00 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
Believe it or not: I have only 32MB of RAM on my computer with Windows 98 and never had this memory leak problem. I played quite a lot with large quadrants up to 250 systems and 20 empires!
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August 3rd, 2001, 07:36 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
I rarely ever have the memory leak problems UNLESS I use MS software (Word, Excel, etc.). If I stay away from anything MS produces, I can run any of my systems for weeks (95, 98, and 2000 Pro). If I use MS Apps, give me 2 hrs and I'll have to restart.
That's one of the reasons why I couldn't understand why they wanted to 'break up' MicroSoft - IMO they're already seperate companies..... If they weren't, wouldn't the Applications group have a little better understanding about what the OS group is doing ??? Huh?!?!?!
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August 3rd, 2001, 08:56 PM
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Re: OK, this was odd
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Originally posted by dogscoff:
You mean you can get windoze to run for more than 5 hours without crashing? Wow...
Sure, as long as you don't put on any googaws that run in the background. As a PC tech, I've been asked many times to figure out why someone's PC is running, and it's usually the dozen things they installed that launch on bootup. I usually just get rid of all that crap (though it gets trickier when it launches from the registry...).
Oh yeah, also defrag and scandisk your hard drive regularly (which can be scheduled), clean out your temp files occasionally, turn off active desktop (pointless in my opinion), and don't look at your PC funny. They may be "just" machines, but they're still persnickety....
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