Mine ran 512 MB for about a week or so. It was speedy.

Windows tips I ran across, #00000002

Tired to having random errors ask you to report back to Microsoft?

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Here's the steps to turn that off.

that's useful!

Here's the steps to turn that off.

Marked. Daniel, you rock like a thing made out of a big hunk of stone.

You do rock. But what is the "but notifiy me when critical errors occur"? Does that mean notify microsoft when critical errors occur ? Or does it mean if I uncheck it windows will stop giving me error messages during crashes? I'm trying to figure out whether it is a trap to punish you for disabling microsoft notification by sticking in an option to turn off error reporting entirely? Or is it a trick to try and get you to at least copy in Microsoft when really bad errors occur?

. But what is the "but notifiy me when critical errors occur"? Does that mean notify microsoft when critical errors occur ?

I take it to mean, if something is bad enough, you will be given the dialog box, otherwise? not so much.

It soes not say "but notifiy Microsoft when critical errors occur".

If it notified Microsoft without your permissinn, there would be a large quantity of complaints about spyware.

"Me" is the user. You'll get a pop-up box that a critical error occured, but you won't get the dialog box to notify Microsoft about it.

Also, if you haven't already done it, when you're at the same section of the System Properties dialog, click on the "Settings" button under "Startup and Recovery" and uncheck the box next to "Automatically Restart" which is found under the sub-heading of System Failure. It's one of the numerous stupid default settings that MS have enabled after installing XP. If the computer has suddenly rebooted on you, chances are very high that this is the cause of it. The crying baby Jesus is the only one who knows why it's done this way, since XP can--and most often does--recover from a program crash without the need to reboot. By unchecking that box the system will simply alert you that a program has crashed, without you losing data etc in programs not affected by the failed program.

Huh. I've never had XP reboot unexpectedly on me. Much crashage of apps, though.

I have. A few days after I first installed XP the system rebooted without warning or explanation; one second I was doing something, without any apparent problem, and the next thing the computer had started to reboot. I don't recall the errant program, or why the OS thought it was so nasty it had to flee in terror but that enabled function was the actual cause of the reboot.