.... and in some cases, don't die at all.. is this the first real instance of
eternal life, albeit cyber life?..

I remember the resource problem well, but it has to be said that a Win98
setup running 64mb was more susceptible to crashing out that if it were
sporting 512mb..

I was a member of a 'computer club' where this old guy and others turned up
every two weeks with problems.. and each time, he had run every demo program
on every cover diskette, had a screen full of icons, some of which were
programs installed to desktop.. add/remove was like the dragon infested land
on the other side of the mountain as far as he was concerned.. he just
deleted folders as he saw fit.. time and again, I told him to quit it until
eventually, I was the one to quit.. I couldn't cope with all of the people
there who would just not listen.. membership of the club increased
dramatically when news of a friend and I running a clinic for the 'hard of
hearing' spread, but as membership rose, my patience and that of my
friend slowly dissipated..

Long live the 'good old days'..

--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm





"Sharon F" wrote in message
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:57:46 -0500, Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:

The same applies in msconfig - start-up.. the uninitiated will often stop
stuff that really should be running.. in the past, taking things out of
start-up was seen as a panacea that would make a computer faster.. that
it
does, but the fact that removing items does that only goes to show that
the
computer in question simply doesn't have the resources to run decently..

When running an operating system with limited resources (win9x), keeping
an
eye on startup items was a vital part of system maintenance. While it
doesn't hurt to keep startup trimmed in XP (and doing so can still catch
some malware that has been installed that a user wasn't aware of), it is
not a critical mission. Seems to me that most of the people that ask this
question have just made the jump from Win9x to XP. A case of "old habits
die hard"?

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User