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TKS
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n°41122
12-10-2003 at 06:47:26 PM

"Microsoft will retire several of its products next week, including Windows 98 and SQL Server 7, to comply with a court order related to its dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java" <i><A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002736.asp?cp1=1" target="_new">http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002736.asp?cp1=1</A></i>

Sounds just like them...kill a stable release...go with the buggy one. How dumb can you be?

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n°41131
12-10-2003 at 11:49:35 PM

You will still be able to get the patches and updates. just wont be any new ones. I got updates for win 95 for an old computer from M$oft web site.

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n°41135
12-11-2003 at 04:55:33 AM

Cant support old software forever!

Zoron
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n°41136
12-11-2003 at 04:56:46 AM

First of all, define 'stable'... then I might agree with your point.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP are perfectly rock-solid for me thus far. Win 98 was ok... but not nearly as stable for me as 2000/XP.

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n°41140
12-11-2003 at 04:55:00 PM

As in, I had a 98 platform up for about 3 months without a reboot...that's never happened with my 95 or XP platfms.

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n°41265
12-16-2003 at 06:09:08 AM

Win95? No doubt.

XP is fine though. You have bonzai buddy installed?

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n°41502
12-22-2003 at 08:09:04 AM

Hope it's ok to add a few links you might want to read over carefully how to go about dealing with this...

<A HREF="http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-12-18.htm#1" target="_new">LangaList Newsletter - December 18, 2003</A>

<A HREF="http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-12-15.htm#1" target="_new">LangaList Newsletter - December 15, 2003</A>

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n°41718
12-29-2003 at 11:25:20 PM

why would you want banzai buddy installed?

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jihiggs
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n°41719
12-29-2003 at 11:25:49 PM

98 wasnt that stable, 2k and xp are way more stable.

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n°41732
12-30-2003 at 06:23:06 AM

Tell that to my daily rebooting XP machine.

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dhlucke
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n°41736
12-30-2003 at 07:13:59 AM

Uninstall bonzai buddy!

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jihiggs
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n°41737
12-30-2003 at 07:28:31 AM

maybe ill tell that to whoever leaves faulty equipment in their pc, and installs garbage software on it. i hear you have bonzai buddy installed? you have NO room to talk about stability issues.

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n°41744
12-30-2003 at 04:05:43 PM

Yeah...right...I have bonzai buddy....are you a fuggin idiot? You think I'd have my own Linux/Gateway running slackware 9.1 with apache and samba and that I'd have bonzai running on my windows machine? Or that I'd have faulty EQ in it? I'd never be that retarded...and the people here that are familiar with me and my posts know I wouldn't.

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Zoron
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n°41745
12-30-2003 at 05:06:38 PM

Damnit, don't argue, just get rid of Bonzai Buddy!

*snicker*

Seriously, though, there must be some issue with your XP box. Either hardware, software, or drivers... perhaps even mobo BIOS. Windows 2K and XP are by far the most rock-solid Windows OSes available. The only time I have to reboot my comp is when I do driver or Windows updates. I couldn't say the same for Windows 98... even though I did like it a lot... and definately preferred it over Win ME.

<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>

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n°41746
12-30-2003 at 07:27:47 PM

obviously your the genius here, your computer restarts every day by fault of microsoft, obviously. of course there is no possible way that you are to blame for your system instability.

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n°41748
12-30-2003 at 08:04:05 PM

When you build about 5 computers a day for sale in a business...ya kind of get used to NOT making any mistakes. If you do, your reputation is at stake and in a small town (under 100k people) that can kill you. I know it isn't hardware because I've swapped out parts and put brand new in. Still no workie. So it <i>could</i> be hardware combination...but that would be the only thing it could be for hardware. Hence why I am more likely to blame Macro$uck...because hardware combinations causing problems are extremely rare...and no conflicts have been reported at any of the companies with this hardware combination.

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