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Originally posted by jaguar
I'm with juju - move to 2k unless you must use 98, in which case, work out how to back everything up quickly and reinstall every few months, the 9x kernels are just shit.
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1) I had been preaching this concept (NT superiority) back in the early ninties when I bypassed Windows 3.1, and instead loaded Win NT. Back then, I encountered universal hostility for saying equivalent to what jaguar has posted. How ironic that suddenly, with XP being forced on everyone, most now are in agreement with what I had been saying so long ago. What changed? Is this proof again of a Star Trek movie theme - people fear change?
2) Task Manager cannot close a task. Problem was created before trying to close the task. Closing a bad process simply took out the OS as well. Problem is something in the process. Start by making a list of *.DLLs common to those programs.
One nasty problem with Windows 9x is that is wants to make *.DLL revisions transparent to the user / installer. It assumes the latest version is best. This may not always be true. But if some programs share the same *.DLL, then removing one program may not remove the offending *.DLL file.
Another problem I once encountered was a *.DLL instended for 32 bit OSes (NT based) was instead loaded by the program on a 16 bit (9x based) OS.
An ironclad solution is not provided. Provided is only a concept to discover the problem. Since Win 9x does not have powerful tools found in both NT and Unix type OSes, the task list and system logs, then Win 9x users have few tools to isolate or identify reason for crashes.