[Elecraft] Windows Upgrade

Mon Mar 31 16:44:01 2003

[email protected] wrote:

>Dear Terry,
>Windows 9x (98, 95 and all the various "releases") suffers from rot over 
>time.  This general phenomenon is well documented and is caused by the 
>fact that any program may overwrite portions of the approved operating 
>system by substituting it's own *.DLL file for a similar (but different) 
>from the one that Microsoft releases.  This coupled with sloppy mechanisms 
>to add/remove programs causes the stability and performance of Windows 9x 
>to deteriorate (rot) over time.  How fast?  It depends on how much you 
>install/remove and other activity on the system.  The general 
>recommendation is to re-install Windows 9x at least once a year, and 
>perhaps more often.
>

Good advice; in fact, I just did a reinstall Sat.

I also restart at least once a day to clean out cache junk and the like 
(this thing is on like via cable 100% of the time, except during reboots).

73, Phil