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

[Jay Eimer]

Well, I can understand that.  Other things that may help would be to
shut down anything that is not required by the system.

That would include the screen saver (as someone else already mentioned)
- if you're concerned, just turn the monitor off.  Also if it's not
connected to the internet, you can turn off virus scanners, PDA
auto-sync programs, graphics control panels, etc.  Basically anything
that is in the system tray should be able to be turned off without
hurting the system.  You never know which one is leaking resources.

To be scientific, turn them off one at a time until the system is
stable, then permanently disable the problem child.  Brute force method
is to just disable them all, then if necessary re-enable the ones you
find that you need (but the danger here is disabling something that
makes the system unusable).

I personally go for somewhere in between, but I can usually tell what's
essential by the name (or a quick internet search).  But I'm a
professional (computer software developer).

HTH,
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 21:32
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Question on Win 95..has me stumped 


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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