[Ham-Computers] Win98 "Garbage Collector" - was "RAM Defrag"

[Rich B]

Good thing opinions are just that, opinions.

As a System Administrator that oversees 40+ Win2k
Server boxes and 500+ WIndows 2000 Pro/ Win XP
workstations I have found that it isn't the Operating
System that is defective but usually the user who
doesn't have clue one on how to setup or maintain the
System. Win2k Server, Win2k Pro and Win XP pro all
need a certain amount of tweaking and optimizing to
setup, run correctly and to keep running correctly (As
do all Operating Systems).

In my 10 years of experience as a daily computer user/
Administrator MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION is that:

1.) NO operating system is the be-all end-all (at my
job we use most of the common OS's and some you
probably haven't heard of)
2.) Hardware, Software and PEOPLE are causes of alot
of problems (for all OS's). If your hardware doesn't
meet or exceed the minimum specs and you have problems
its not the OS.
3.) Daily Re-boots are not necessary on a healthy
system, its the software running in the background
that causes the problems (If your startup group is
loaded with apps try cleaning it out, also look whats
being started through the Registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
)
4.) The same arguments that were spewed 10 years ago
about MS don't hold any water today, Windows 2000 and
Windows XP are far better than the older systems and a
PROPERLY INSTALLED AND MAINTAINED Windows XP system IS
rock solid.
5.) Opinions are like, well you know, everyone has
one...

-Rich N2BRT

--- jeff <jeffv at op.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 23:23 -0400, WA5CAB at cs.com
> wrote:

> 
> 
> It is, quite plainly, a defective operating system. 
> Yet the Great
> Unwashed buy every single new version, as if it's
> somehow better than
> the last one.  



		
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