From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:39:03 GMT
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:39:03 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:24:58 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" wrote:
>> 
>> > > >nietzsche:~> uptime
>> > > >  6:10pm  up 203 days,  8:40,  6 users,  load average: 1.00, 1.01, 1.01
>> > > I'm jealous.
>> > I'm not.  My Windows 95 machine runs for weeks on end without
>> > crashing.  In fact, the only few times it did crash was because of
>> > power outages.
>> 
>>     I suspect you use the 'Windows Explorer', and probably Netscape for
>> browsing.
>
>No, on that machine I don't use anything but GNU software compiled with
>DJGPP.  Acrobat is the only non-GNU program that gets used a lot, to preview
>documents I write before printing them.  (Windows Explorer? what's that?
>there's only Emacs Dired Mode for me ;-)

How do you get it not to load Explorer.exe when you start Windows?

>> And I've had Explorer take down the Kernel when I hit Ctrl+A (to
>> select all files).  There are weeks when my machine doesn't crash, and there
>> are days with more than 10 crashes, and then there are the days when some of
>> VFAT's resources are unavailable (blue screen message during boot-up, system
>> halted) and I need to reinstall everything...
>
>The FAQ explains some of the reasons why do these woes happen (see section
>8.15).

And some of the software on my "restore system" CD (my box didn't come
with a Microsoft Windows 98 CD) overwrites the DLLs.

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