Biennial Crash Testing

Perry & Vicki Ahern ahern@bellsouth.net
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:57:26 -0400


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holly.lisle@sff.net wrote:

> My PC crashed yesterday, taking all of my mail, a fair amount of my
> checkbook data, and fortunately, none of my writing.  I'm in the
> process of rebuilding my data right now, and not having a pleasant
> time of it.
>
> PCs have done this to me on a semiregular basis since I got them --
> this time, it seems to have been a Windows 98 problem.
>

</lurk> [surfacing from lurkdom and pulling together his dissolved Crow
molecules to speak once more]

Holly, have you used the update feature on Win 98 to "repair" some of
the problems that Win98 was released with?

I recently purchased a new computer with Win98 and was glad to see the
update feature, which takes you to the Microsoft update site and
displays a list of various types of updates.  Most important are the
critical updates.  It checks your system to see which you have not
installed, then displays a list for you to choose from.  Then you
download them and it does the install process for you.  It's pretty
convenient, actually.  Now if only I could get the task scheduler to
shut off like it's supposed to...

Perry A.

P.S.: Harald, I hope you don't mind but I adopted your sig line some
time ago.  It's too true....
<lurk>

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holly.lisle@sff.net wrote:
My PC crashed yesterday, taking all of my mail, a fair amount of my
checkbook data, and fortunately, none of my writing.  I'm in the
process of rebuilding my data right now, and not having a pleasant
time of it.

PCs have done this to me on a semiregular basis since I got them --
this time, it seems to have been a Windows 98 problem.
 

</lurk> [surfacing from lurkdom and pulling together his dissolved Crow molecules to speak once more]

Holly, have you used the update feature on Win 98 to "repair" some of the problems that Win98 was released with?

I recently purchased a new computer with Win98 and was glad to see the update feature, which takes you to the Microsoft update site and displays a list of various types of updates.  Most important are the critical updates.  It checks your system to see which you have not installed, then displays a list for you to choose from.  Then you download them and it does the install process for you.  It's pretty convenient, actually.  Now if only I could get the task scheduler to shut off like it's supposed to...

Perry A.

P.S.: Harald, I hope you don't mind but I adopted your sig line some time ago.  It's too true....
<lurk>

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         It takes a child to raze a village.
                           -Michael T. Fry
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