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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (4572)	6/19/1998 2:15:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7491

Any wonder system managers seem to gray prematurely! Sorry to hear of your bad luck, and I thought Norton was supposed to help. I've always been nervous about using defraggers on the systems I manage. For the most part in my obscure world these are useless as they won't defrag opened files and most of the time the critical files are the opened files and remain open 7X24. Fortunately all my systems are 64 bit, well a few are 32 bit, but the utilities are never mixed. Picked up a Y2K assignment this week. A fab I know has a dozen ovens controlled by a dedicated computer running an ancient and obscure real time os beneath an unsupported obsolete software package, probably they don't have source. Can't even find the two most important manuals in the os doc set, the operations and utilities manuals. Still digging into this one. May just end up turning the clock back 20 years in the end. Sometimes this is an option.

To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (4572)	6/19/1998 2:52:00 AM
From: wonk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7491

Kerry: OFF TOPIC I have never had a catastrophic system failure on Win95 or Win3x. (knock on wood). My only theory is that I have turned off write-behind caching and leave it off, always. I do not know enough anymore to hypothesize whether caching has anything to do with your problem. (Of course, if the Registry is being constantly updated in real-time and a lockup occurs?) However, every person I've suggested this to, even those with chronic system failures, have found it breaks the cycle of wipe and re-install. FWIW ww