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Looks like that's some sort of notifier/nag screen to upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out.
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I update, but wait a while and do research first. Saved me from those faulty updates that came out recently."Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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OTOH, Microsoft had to make a patch for Windows 95 and Windows 98 for that issue.
It was common to see Windows 95 and Windows 98 locked up at "Windows is shutting down" on campus PCs connected to the LAN.
Microsoft had a bug where Windows 95 and Windows 98 were more likely to do that when connected to a LAN.
Even good ol' Windows 98 SE had that bug, IIRC!
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I don't know, my 98 would hang up like that all the time. They never did fix it. XP did it too, way too often. Mostly 7 just crashes on me, BSOD with memory dump. I think it's the video card that does it. It's not too often so no real problem. One of my game programs is from 98 and it has to change resolution to run it. Sometimes when it comes back the screen is all messed up. More like a tye-died picture than aero. After restarting it works fine again until I play that game.sigpicThe Sky Is FallingComment
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I don't know, my 98 would hang up like that all the time. They never did fix it. XP did it too, way too often. Mostly 7 just crashes on me, BSOD with memory dump. I think it's the video card that does it. It's not too often so no real problem. One of my game programs is from 98 and it has to change resolution to run it. Sometimes when it comes back the screen is all messed up. More like a tye-died picture than aero. After restarting it works fine again until I play that game.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
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I'm not sure. It looks like a tye dyed T shirt. When I move the mouse it blanks out until I stop and then the screen comes back. Makes it hard to shutdown and restart. Takes a few minutes to start task manager and shut down.sigpicThe Sky Is FallingComment
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I never had that problem with Windows 2000 and later. It always still responded, even when it looked like it crashed.
OTOH, Microsoft had to make a patch for Windows 95 and Windows 98 for that issue.
It was common to see Windows 95 and Windows 98 locked up at "Windows is shutting down" on campus PCs connected to the LAN.
Microsoft had a bug where Windows 95 and Windows 98 were more likely to do that when connected to a LAN.
Even good ol' Windows 98 SE had that bug, IIRC!
Why did Microsoft fail to fix that by Windows 98 SE RTM in 1999?Comment
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I've heard that the crashing can be due to driver issues. And it's not the programming of the drivers. Apparently, I heard that there is some sort of intrinsic flaw in the way windows handles drivers, which could cause them to do something at the same time (or something to that effect) and cause the system to crash.
Fortunately, I've never had any problems with windows 7Muh-soggy-kneeComment
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Never updating at all means you are going to have an OS full of known security holes that malware writers just love to exploit."Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
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It can cause problems, but that's usually by people installing updates too fast before everyone else has had time to test them and find the bugs...
Never updating at all means you are going to have an OS full of known security holes that malware writers just love to exploit.Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
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All of my computers are clean, that's all I can say. On my XP machines, SP2 is enough. The only update you really need if you have SP2 is the one that prevents the DownAdUp worm infection. No other issues other than that. A strong hosts file and ABP in Firefox go a long way to protect my PCs. Oh, and a dash of common sense, of course.
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Hello Guys,
got an Acer here with the problem that when i'm installing windows it just crashes (turns off) and not going back on as soon as i press the power button.
I've tried it with different sticks and windows versions and also with windows 10 and 11 but it's the same problem.
The only difference is that when i want to install windows 11 it crashes during the installation screen when "getting files ready for installation" at 25% - 30% progress and
when i install windows 10 it goes trough until the restart and at "getting devices ready" it... - Loading...
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