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

[Dale Miller]

You could try a free memory defragmenting program
I use RamDef on my Windows System

Regards
Dale Miller, KC2CBD

Brian K Gaskamp wrote:

>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
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>>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
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>>-----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
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>>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...
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>>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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