Re: [Thinkpad] Old Thinkpads...why do I keep doing this?

Jeffrey Race wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:42:17 -0800, Jonathan Berry wrote:
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>>I wonder if there is a pattern here? I am in charge of two
>>stable Win2K systems, but the install partition is FAT32. In each case
>>I have a much larger NTFS partition which handles large data files
>>and especially video. Works just fine.
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>>Incidentally, my 600E is a dual-boot Win98 / Win2K. I use Win98 to
>>run 1 count 'em one program which doesn't work properly under Win2K.
>>But now when I go into Win98, it quickly hangs with a blank screen
>>and the underline (cursor) blinking. I was able to google up a few
>>references to this, but not a solution. I wonder if some MS
>>upgrade to Win2K killed the dual boot?
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>Due to some hardware failure I am an involuntary Windows user and I
>have been experimenting with W98, W98SE and W2K. The latter is
>bigger but definitely more stable IF you keep it clean. This means
>running a utility like Norton SystemWorks WinDoctor. Do this every
>few days if you are installing and deleting programs. And be sure
>to back up your registry.
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>Sometimes after a week of use NSW will find hundreds of registry
>errors. These are usually what cause the crashes. (You have to
>do this on Win98 also, of course.)
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>Jeffrey Race
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I too am an involuntary Windows user due to hardware failure. I have a
utility (AA-Tools by
G-Lock) which finds dead registry lines (among other things). They grow
like kudzu but I've been afraid of the
consequences of deleting them. I have the hang and blinking cursor and
if the guy in the
shop down the street says that's a dead system I am reloading for the
last time on NTFS.
I suspect the beta Windows antispyware app broke my system but who knows. It
did find things missed by the others, but it locked twice.

The oddest thing of all is that my W2K system crashed while it was
powered off and
I was at the office. After checking the email and weather, I shut down
and went to
work, no problem. When I returned home, it would only hang with the blinking
cursor.

I will go to the FAT32 route even though that means more fragmentation,
etc. In the golden
days I ran OS/2 WARP on HPFS no problem ever, but kept a DOS maintenance
partition
full of stuff to use if I had a crash thinking maybe that might help.

We have a rare snow day here in Atlanta, so I'll play with my champion
600X, and
fix Winders tomorrow.

This is really irritating so much so that I believe Microsoft should be
accountable for
a product having a reasonable degree of reliability, or provide a repair
person onsite
next day at no charge. gads.

Sorry for the length of this somewhat off topic epistle.

Allan Ballard
TP600X
TP760XL
TP760CD

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Received on Sat Jan 29 15:03:11 2005