Hey,
At 07:41 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, Bruce A Metcalf wrote:
>Can someone explain to me why (and if) it's better to run Prime95 as a
>service under these OSs? Is there a speed advantage? Also, who would be
>serving whom?
There is no speed advantage. There are only 2 advantages that I see:
1) If you logoff of Windows when you are not using your computer, prime95
will continue to run as a service, it will exit during logoff if it is not
installed
as a service. Many businesses want you to logoff your computer for
security reasons. Most home users don't logoff because security is not
an issue.
2) If you install prime95 as a service it will start running at bootup before
anyone logs on. If a power failure hits at night, prime95 will restart
automatically
assuming your computer restarts when power is restored.
Hope that helps,
George
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