From: "Robert Comer" 

It's not a good idea to leave Win95 and Win98's running for days without at
least rebooting anyway, they get flakier and flakier and that something
they do at bootup is probably pulling down patches and updates.

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:9096c0.c2a4f3{at}harborwebs.com...
> No idea, but probably yes, because I think we do something to them every
time
> they boot, IOW we probably TELL them to shut them down every night.
>
> > From: "Glenn Meadows" 
> > Umm, do the people turn OFF their machines at night, and then on again
in
> > the AM?  A simple test if the problem persists, is leave ALL the
computers
> > on for several days, and see if the problem goes away.
> > --
> > Glenn M.
> > "Ellen K"  wrote in message
> > news:6096a8.c1b1f6{at}harborwebs.com...
> >> I know we have a lot of Win98's (that's what the folks using the
Clipper
> > apps
> >> use), dunno about Win95's.
> >>
> >> What is SAP advertising?
> >>
> >> > From: "Geo." 
> >> > "Ellen K." 
wrote in message
> >> > news:dkvob0503g6coma1ppqap9v8fmkpuqphgj{at}4ax.com...
> >> >> Well, we ARE running tcp and IPX at the same time,
all those folks
> >> >> logging on need both and I guess will continue to do
so as long as
any
> >> >> pieces of the old Clipper apps are still in use.  
So if we can't
> > remove
> >> >> the IPX, is there anything else that could ameliorate this?
> >> > Sure, there are lots of other ways to fix it but it depends on the
> > cause. For
> >> > example if you have a bunch of win95 machines you can disable SAP
> > advertising
> >> > on them (I don't remember how you do that but I know that's one
> > solution). In
> >> > NT you can set the registry entry
> >>
> >>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Browser\Parameters\Mai
> > nta
> >> > nServerList
> >> > to "No".
> >> >There are probably some other tricks I've forgotten but
tell network
guy
> > to do
> >> > a search at www.jsifaq.com and they'll turn up.
> >> > Geo.

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