[Ham-Computers] Question on Win 95..has me stumped

[Jay Eimer]

Windows.

Kidding, but not entirely.  A number of programs, including some of the
background processes in Windows itself have memory leaks (they allocate
memory, use it, the "discard" it but forget to tell the OS it has been
released.  The longer these programs run, the less memory (or resources
- an area of special memory that is even more limited) is available to
other processes.

The computer is still running, but it doesn't have enough resources to
"do" anything - including wake up from the screen saver.

It's a problem with all programs on all OS's, but some are better than
others.  Generally the newer the Windows version the less this is a
problem (XP is very good in this regard) but no Win app can hold a
candle to anything on one of the Unix kernels (Linux or a true Unix
flavor).

About all you can do is upgrade, or reboot more often.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brian K.
Gaskamp
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 17:17
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Question on Win 95..has me stumped 


I recently got a weather station installed on a old computer running Win
95 and I leave it running pretty much all the time, when I'm not around
the computer I leave the monitor off and after leaving the computer
unattended say overnight or during the day and I turn the monitor back
on the screen saver is on BUT the machine is froze...

I reboot it and everything runs fine.

Whats causing that...Its probably simple and I'm overlooking something.

73,
Brian
KA5BKG


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