OK, I haven't been following this thread so this may have already been
mentioned and discarded, but how about some sort of "auto update" feature.
It could be turned on/off in the options and would enable people to run
almost unattended with updates coming either as and when required, or they
could be set to occur in tandem with an exponent update.
I appreciate that most software updates require the software to be stopped
during update then started again afterwards, but would it not be possible
for the update to update the required files to temporary ones, that replace
the old ones on the next reboot using win9x runonce facility in the
registry. e.g.. the updates being prime95.new etc. I know this means the
updates only happen at the reboot, but who can convince a win 9x machine to
run longer than 8 hours without one anyway? (off topic - have you seen the
"continuous running fix" for win98 yet? no joke, It fixes a bug that causes
the computer to lock up after 49.7 days. 49.7 days? I cant get mine to
last 49.7 hours!)
Another method would have to be found for updating the OS2 / Linux etc.
clients, but I am sure there must be one.
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James Smith
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> Yes, actually that's more what I had in mind. I thought that maybe there
> could be a little status bar at the bottom of the Prime95 window that
> scrolls important information or something. I like the bit about having
the
> icon change color, but it's already mostly RED which would have been a
good
> "alert" color. Maybe slowly flashing YELLOW or something, or make is
> usually GREEN then YELLOW for messages and RED for big problems.
>
> For folks running this on a lot of machines, you'd obviously just turn
this
> feature off on most of them, only keeping it turned on for your own
personal
> machines.
>
> Well, these are all good thoughts, let's see what George and Scott can
> do...they've already done so much as it is.
>
> Aaron
>
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