Something for Win98 users

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-01-31 10:46pm

Ever wondered why Win98 (or Win95, in case one of you has been living in a cave) becomes thoroughly unusable after a month or so?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q216641

An interesting little tidbit.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-01-31 10:47pm

Doesn't explain why my old Windows ME was fucked up.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-31 11:03pm

There lots of strange KB articles. I once found one that said, PING STOPS RESPONDING AFTER 60 DAYS, or some such time. Since Ive never needed to ping -t any box for that long, I thought it was kinda funny.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-02-01 05:06am

How the fuck do you get Windows 95/98 to keep going for nearly 50 days anyway? In my experience it just does not happen.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-02-01 05:17am

Crazy_Vasey wrote:How the fuck do you get Windows 95/98 to keep going for nearly 50 days anyway? In my experience it just does not happen.

It's possible but hard.

One client I used to have:

Client owned a bunch of appartments.
He had Win95 as a print server and running streamserve (db) for the rent.

That computer stayed up and running for 2 YEARS! :gasp:

Finaly the power supply went dead, I repleased it booted up and the MF countinued to run no prob.

That was fucking amazing.

I did try to sell him a new server and junk but I was to stunned to really make a good case.

Edit
Not sure abot the 2y figure that's what he told me. It might have bscreened and rebooted now and then but I donm't know.

It was stuffed in a closet, no mouse no kb and no monitor connected..

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-02-01 05:29am

Faram wrote:
That computer stayed up and running for 2 YEARS! :gasp:

Wow.