[Dx4win] Re: Lost QSO's

[Kjell W. Strom]

For double safety in XP Pro, go to Control Panel > Performance
and Maintenance > System and set Automatic Updates to "Notify me
but don't automatically download or install".
73 de Kjell, PB3SM - SM6CPI
 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Reisert AD1C
> Sent: 19 February 2008 15:38
> To: W5LT
> Cc: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Re: Lost QSO's
> 
> On 2/19/2008 6:19 AM, W5LT wrote:
> 
> > Well, a power failure is only one cause of lost QSO's.
> > As I learned a few weeks ago, Bill Gates' infernal device 
> will do it 
> > too, when it downloads a 'patch' and reboots twice during 
> the night, 
> > over writing the temporary file that holds your 
> 'automatically saved' 
> > Q's that you forgot to actually (Alt-S) save.
> 
> One of the first things my application note says is NEVER 
> walk away from
>   the computer if the backup timer is red.  SAVE YOUR LOG!
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, 
> http://www.ad1c.us
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