rec.autos.simulators

I frequent RAS often, even though I am not a huge poster. Many of the the tips
here are very helpful. I'm sure most of you already know about this, but there
is a utility out that has been around for a few years, that shuts down all the
ancillary programs running in the background taking up memory from your races.
Check it out if you don't already know about it, it's easier than ctrl-alt-del
ing everything.

Hope this helps someone

Get it here

www.deepdomain.olm.net/enditall.zip

Chris

|
| > I frequent RAS often, even though I am not a huge poster. Many of the
the tips
| > here are very helpful. I'm sure most of you already know about this, but
there
| > is a utility out that has been around for a few years, that shuts down
all the
| > ancillary programs running in the background taking up memory from your
races.
| > Check it out if you don't already know about it, it's easier than
ctrl-alt-del
| > ing everything.
| >
| > Hope this helps someone
| >
| > Get it here
| >
| > www.deepdomain.olm.net/enditall.zip
| >
| > Chris
|
| --
| Bert
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|
|

    John DiFool

Unfortunately, this is a design problem with Windows 98"I ain't shuttin'
down for no one" SE (Stinky Edition).

Microsoft has a couple of patches out that _help_ (maybe) with some Win98SE
shut-down problems.  Unfortunatly, they only fix about 2 out of 500 reasons
for the problem.

It is one of the main reasons I refuse to run Win98SE, and to this day use
98, the original edition.

98SE also has this bad habit of crashing out internally at startup if you do
anything before the hour-glass goes away.  It's like it takes a 15 second
pause after the last System-Tray icon is loaded and says "Go ahead, click on
something.  I dare you!".

I also think Driver Stability is more of a problem under SE.

IMHO, Win98 Original Edition, with all the critical patches, is the most
stable *** platform there is.

But, this is all much, much more than you wanted or asked for :)

Sorry, I'm not sure where the hell this rant came from.  I guess I'm still
buzzing from D.G. Fishers wizdom of the day...

-Larry

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Scary thing is, you'll get used to this, if you want to or not...

Andre

This is one of the reasons I stick with plain old '98 too. And the
fact that SE screws my joystick up and I have to go hack a file to
make it work properly again. I have an image back up of 98 with all
critical updates and basic drivers so that if I have to format and
reinstall I just need to restore the image using Norton Ghost.

--
Jagg

-Cheers!

Fortunately, that is the only problem I have using End It All.  Despite that
problem, I continue to use it, as it makes an IMMENSE difference in performance for
GPL in particular.  (I normally have lots of ***running in the background, when
I'm not simming.)