[thelist] System question...........
Peter Kaulback
pkaulbak at idirect.ca
Mon Jun 4 13:59:41 CDT 2001
In the wee hour of 01:37 PM 6/4/01 -0400, Ron White bequeathed such tales
as these:
>What the heck do you people do to your machines?!?!?! I've had win98 on my
>home machine for over THREE years and have not had any problems that would
>require reinstalling the OS. The only problem I've had is a memory leak with
>McAffee Virus Scan during the screen saver. It eventually locked the machine
>and needed to be rebooted. Since removing it, I don't have any problems. Do
>you all not keep up with the patches and other maintenance like defrag?
>
>Thanks,
>Ron White
>
><snip>
>I have to re-install Win98SE all too often
><snip>
>
Three years?? I think the Smithsonian would like to claim your system and
maybe call Ripley's Believe it Or Not while you are at it too. I'm rolling
reinstalls every 6 to 8 months with 98SE, same was for 95 and NT4, I would
run 2k but my master drive doesn't like 2k (only 256k cache). I'm
lengthening that a bit now by tweaking every square inch of it but between
capping, large image rendering, and running a server on it, well 98 just
get's worn out rather quickly. Defrag only when it gets over 10% or when I
have to do a burn or a backup (which is weekly). The longest running
machine I saw had no new software installed, or patches, or new
drivers. And it was running win95a since September 1995 with the
defrag/scandisk hardly ever being run. Go figure.
Peter Kaulback
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