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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:46:04 -0400
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From: Neil Somos <nsomos AT actron DOT com>
Subject: prime95 adversely affects update on w2k
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I am writing in the hope of saving others some grief.

Prime95 (http://mersenne.org/) soaks up all available background
CPU cycles while trying to help find large mersenne primes.

Apparently when it is running, it prevents some or all of the
postinstall activity from completing.  (On windows 2000 anyway)

It is a simple matter to temporarily disable prime95 while
install/updates are taking place, provided one knows that this
is important.

Many many thanks for the resizeable setup window.

neal


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