Re: [OT] Computer Comment, Please?

Here's another possibility. Someone mentioned System Restore, and it got me
thinking:

In fact, something similar has happened to me when using Word 2000 on 98SE.
Don't know about anyone else, but no matter how many times I reinstall,
reformat, or update, Word 2000 inevitably creates a memory leak that sucks
up all my processing power until the app and or computer crashes. It works
fine for 6-12 months, then inevitably develops this bug, at which point I
have to try 5 different ways of uninstalling/reinstalling to get it to work
reasonably well.

It's possible that this happened, and that XP restarted w/ System Restore
rather than blue screen. 98 will sometimes auto restart as well. Usually, I
get a "memory low" error or a blue screen, but a couple of times the machine
has restarted on its own - one time it went into Safe Mode.

IMO, the core problem is that Word 2000 is just a hunk of ***.


If this sounds plausible, I'd pull up the document you were working on again
and see if you can get it to crash.Copy/ paste large sections, add graphics
or pics and see what happens.


My other theory is that the paperclip did it. All the more reason for him to
die...

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"Brian Running" <brunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here's one for the computer-types here.

Day before yesterday, I was working on a brief. MS Word 2000, Windows
XP. Left my office for a bout 10 minutes, and when I returned, the
computer had re-booted itself, and was waiting for my password at the
Windows XP login screen. Started Word again, and no brief. No
auto-recover, as is supposed to happen when the app is shut down without
closing -- it was just gone.

The computer is on an APC UPS, which has always worked flawlessly before
and since. There should have been no apps running that would crash, but
even if it had crashed, it wouldn't have re-started itself, would it?
Seems to me that if there had been a software crash, I would have
returned to a locked-up or blue screen, not a freshly-restarted machine.

My auto-save is set to save every two minutes, but there was nothing
there. Searched all the temp folders and the auto-save location folder
-- nothing. A half-day's work was irretrievably lost. Poof.

I've never had anything like this happen. I don't see how it could
happen -- if the machine had been shut down improperly, auto-recover
should have saved the document. The machine wouldn't shut down properly
unless someone did it, and even then it would have prompted a save of
the document before closing.

I ran PC-Cillin, Spy-Bot S&D and AdAware, and they found nothing.

This is an old machine -- could this be a hardware-related thing?

Is this the trait of any new virus or malicious code?

How long should I remain angry?

By the way -- I know someone will ask -- I'm 90% certain that I saved
the document a couple of times as I worked on it, I try to do that
regularly, but I can't say for sure. You know how that goes. But when
I re-opened the doc, it was as it was that morning, before I started
work on it at all.


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