Yes Bob, this happens a _lot_! I probably shut down and restart on average three times a week, sometimes more. However, I feel it is more to do with the bloated software we have to use, together with all the band-aid patches that MS have had to put together to deal with various security threats to the OS and IE. My older systems (DOS versions 2-6 and Windows version 3.10 seemed to be much more stable than current versions. I will soon be migrating to 2000 or XP in the hope of more stable systems, but I still have to maintain W98 (and indeed W95) support capacity for my clients.
Maybe I can retire soon and just use a Mac for my personal stuff! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia On Monday, October 14, 2002 9:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Bill, > I'm on the other side of the argument from John. > I shut down my basement computer when not in use and > my work computer at least daily. I find that the quality of > Bill Gate's software leaves much to be desired. > Sometimes I have to reboot during the day on the > network at work as the machine goes off into never-never land... > Blue screen of death or a full freeze up - no keyboard or mouse > response... > Regards, Bob S. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << Hi Bill: > I leave my systems on all the time, as I find the wait while a hard > drive fires up _intensely_ annoying, particularly when it is a > network > drive I am trying to access. Hell, I get itchy when the monitor has > to > light up again after being in power-saver mode! In 15 years of > running > computers and networks at home, using mainly clone machines, I have > only ever had one HD fail, and that was a 10-year old system which > had > been long consigned to a minor storage role. > > Save aggravation, leave 'em on! > > HTH > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia >>
