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

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

Well not going to upgrade a old computer just for a weather station.
So I'll stay with Windows.

Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Eimer" <ad5pe at familynet.net>
To: "'Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting'" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:28 PM
Subject: RE: [Ham-Computers] Question on Win 95..has me stumped


> 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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