Re: "Never change a running system"


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4331794D.155@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dylan Sung wrote:
>>
>> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:43315314.3091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > (A new client has placed a Windows XP machine in my office, and it
>> > frequently turns itself off. I've set Word to AutoSave every 1 minute
>> > and I do a manual Save after just about every paragraph. Whereas when a
>> > Mac crashes, you rarely lose anything but the latest changes in the
>> > particular document you're working on -- and it certainly doesn't do it
>> > every few minutes and out of the blue.)
>>
>> I think the newer MS Works can recover from crashes. Programs which
>
> Not MSWorks, no "not responding," and no error message. It simple shuts
> off.
>

Odd.

>> One of the problems with Window's management of data is it's use of
>
> it's?

Alright, you got me. Its.

>
>> temporary files. Stuff gets written to it, and if you have some sort of
>> conflict anywhere accessing memory, it can cause the machine to crash and
>> perform an automatic boot up. If the temporary files were corrupted in
>> the
>> process, on startup, Windows tries to locate stuff, and it will search,
>> and
>> search and search, and not finding the bit it's looking for in the
>> temporary
>> file, it may crash again. It happened on my win 95, and I've experienced
>> it
>> on Win XP. I had created several log-in users on the machine, so I could
>> access the files I've saved, however, in the affected username I was
>> working
>> in at the time, all the so-called "settings" weren't saved properly, and
>> so,
>> even the stuff which was in My Documents had been lost. That is, the
>> addresses of the places on the hard disk where the filenames and data
>> were
>> being kept was lost.
>
> It doesn't seem to be anything that clever -- it just shuts off, and
> nothing is lost but the changes since the last Save. No "My Documents."

Maybe, if you saved your file on the Mac, it has added something to the file
somewhere, which means "close the program" to the Windows operating system
environment. When you load the file and the enviroment trip across it when
it loads or when you are reading through it, it just closes.


>> If you're using XP, do consider saving any precious files into a
>> location,
>> preferably not in My Documents, but on the hard disk which (can be
>> accessed
>> by other though), if the machine is yours. It will save you worry and
>> headaches later, if you have one of these corrupted temp files. Else, buy
>> one of those USB memory sticks which have 128 or more megabytes of memory
>> on
>> them.
>
> At home in their office, it was simply connected to their central
> server. The files I needed were copied to its hard drive when I picked
> it up.
>
> But let's not have a lengthy thread on computer inadequacies ...

Ok.

Dyl.


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