Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Windows has been fairly stable - ie crashes less often - since Windows NT. XP is pretty good for stability. Frank On 3 Jun, 2006, at 08:45, Didier Ludwig wrote: > Sounds like the usual Windows bashing. Didn't we have this at least > 250x on this list? I use PC and Mac since they both exist. Both > systems are still too stupid as they do not sufficiently recognize > my voice and accent. But at least they run, and run, and run. > > The only data loss I ever had was my fault, in 1997, with a PowerPC > because I had used several hard disks with different drivers and > then runned Norton disc doctor over it. In all the years, I never > had to reformat any computer except this case. One of my 5 > computers is a Win xp laptop from 2002 that is often used by my > kids (games, dvd's, internet) and it just runs and runs. Maybe it > has to do with my care, I don't know. > > Didier > > > > >> Luis, >> If you are using Windows, you need to format your disk and >> reinstall the *** thing every 6-12 months otherwise the mess will >> just pile up. Therefore keep a partition only for Windows, another >> only for the swapfile, and all your data elsewhere to minimize >> your problems. And Jim is right - using the Firefox/Thunderbird >> combo will ease the pain a bit. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> Luis Ripoll wrote: > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information