Author: David Dory
Date: 06:50:17 01/03/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 02:42:39, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >On January 01, 2002 at 12:01:40, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: > >>Hola,I have Windows 2000 Professional on serval P/cs and still have Windows 98 >>SE on one of My oldest.Windows 2000 Professional is a stable Operating system as >>is Windows 98.I still have what I call "Program crashes" with all of My Programs >>on both of the 2 Operating systems mentioned above.When I say "crashes",I mean >>the Program stops and displays a small window across the screen and says:Program >>e(depending on which one i was using),has generated an error and will be >>shutdown.You need to restart the program.Are You People having this accurence >>also?Futhermore will this Windows xp have this "error "problem also?Will this >>happen on this new Windows xp as it does with 2000 and 98?Replies back from >>Posting on this Board and others and given Me no resolutions to this >>"error"problem.I all ears and am awaiting to hear what You have to say.Buena >>Suerte,>>>>Mike > >Thanks 2 all >Wayne I have read that the 32 bit portion of Windows2000 is pretty stable. Windows 98 (even second edition) is definitely NOT stable, crashes frequently. If you run 32 bit programs, Windows2K is the way to go. If you run buggy code or programs not well-designed for Windows, you will always have crashes. The reason it's so crash prone is that they try to allow lots of hardware and software to operate, even stuff from the old DOS days will frequently run. Just last week I ran an old Startrek game on my Win2K computer and it ran perfectly - until it remapped my keys!! (You press an 's' but what's printed is maybe an 'o'). (Just try entering your password NOW ;-)) ) Old games (and of course, utilities), from DOS, are the worst programs to try and make run. If they were intended for DOS they may well cause fits in Windows. Expect crashes. Same with chess programs (especially the amateur one's), since most of them are written in 'C', and have no bounds checking outside the programmer. Memory leaks and references to wrong addresses in memory will undoubtedly be hard for any OS to handle, if present! If you are running your computer with less than 128Megs of memory for Win98 (256Megs for Windows2000), your minimal of memory may be causing problems, also. Despite all the hoopla, I don't believe WinXP is as stable as Win2000, by a long shot. I know from painful experience that WinME is very poor. Good luck! Dave
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