Hi Brian,
Late in on this one, sorry... No need to be shy about using '95, it
served very well for all of my EDP/Offix needs (when combined with O'97)
while I was secretary of my Masonic Lodge. The nice thing is it will run
really well on a relatively slow machine with a small hard disk & not
much memory. It will really rip along on a faster machine (provided you
can get drivers for the hardware - problems arise with AMDs over 300MHz,
but the patch for that works, nasty as it is).
If you're thinking of upgrading your PC, XP is generally far more stable
on the desktop than any of it's predecessors. Recovery from the
occasional crash -not often the fault of the OS- is almost immediate,
not dragged out while it cleans up after itself. Even serious user
stupidity - like installing alien drivers, (ask me how I know...
*blush*) is fairly easy to clean up. It is an _excellent_ user OS if
kept up to date. Older equipment/drivers may not be supported though
(like my old Kodak webcam), & it is huge and slow compared to '95 (on
the same box). If the new interface is a worry to you, you can switch it
into 'classic mode' to make it a lot more familiar.
on your specific issue I'd agree that the problems you describe are
likely hardware or malware related...
the symptoms you describe make me think of my cousin's PC which suffered
from bad capacitors on the motherboard. There was a worldwide problem
with certain types of electrolytic capacitors a little while back (see
http://www.badcaps.net/ ), & we were changing them regularly in PC based
equipment that we support. The usual symptom is that the machine will
run fine for a while & then lock up or crash. The periods of good
running will get shorter & shorter over a period of weeks until the
machine is completely useless. Replacing the capacitors (with a suitable
special type) generally fixes the issues (though not easily replaced at
home- this spells a motherboard replacement). The capacitors are a
plastic sleeved aluminium cylinder (vary from 1/4-1/2" in diameter) & if
they are faulty the normally flat top bulges & sometimes ruptures along
the safety lines pressed into the metal.
regards,
davidt
Adelaide, South Australia
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:44:11AM +1200, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Some of you will know that I am still using Windows 95. Now you all know.
>
> So it was with some interest that I had the use of a machine running XP, as I
> showed a cousin how to attach files to e-mails and a few other little things
> on
> his machine which included finding and putting a shortcut to windows
> explorer on his desktop..
>
> Anyway ... I was amused to find that XP locks up his fairly new machine a
> lot more than 95 does on mine, (I mean LOCKS it up) AND when it does, it
> resets the clock to 1 January 2000. That is some kind of advance on W'95.
> At least the clock is left alone when W'95 locks up ( Ha ! ).
>
> Same 'ol same 'ol.
>
> Brian
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