[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How about the No Icon option? (You can still access it by trying to
run Prime95.exe again). And have it configured as a Win95
service. I'm not sure if my system is an anomaly, but even the
Three-Fingered Salute doesn't show Prime95 to be on the list of
tasks to shut down. If the weasel who stole your laptop doesn't
look hard enough, he will then have almost no chance of finding the
program. Heh.
I've noticed that my mother's Win98 machine also does not list Prime95
in the Startup menu, presumably because it's running as a Win98
service. But it does show briefly as a very small window in the lower
left hand corner of the screen during reboots while it's asking for
her password.
If you were to mark it as a hidden file as far as MSDOS is concerned
and put it in the Windows directory or a subdir thereof, it would be
even harder to find.
In regards to defragmenting: I have defragmented my C hard drive
(where Prime95 runs) a number of times, and it almost always takes
over 30 minutes, which is how long Prime95 waits before writing
save files. MS Defrag (taken from Symantec - look at the copyright
notice!) is just as well-behaved as good old FAT16 Symantec Norton
Utilities' defragmenter. Apparently, when a program writes to the
HD, MS Defrag detects it and rescans the hard drive's contents. No
errors are produced. If you are using a Symantec product, then it
will also be well behaved. I don't know about other programs or
non-Win95 systems.
My mother's machine also runs Prime95 24/7 and defrags automatically
every other week via the task scheduler. No problems yet of any kind.
Seti@Home, on the other hand, is not only a bigger resource hog, it
also interferes with Iomega's Zip backup program, causing backups to
fail by crashing the program right at the end, just before the backup
is complete. As I joked to her, I guess E.T. doesn't want her system
backed up.:)
Prime95, of course, doesn't interfere with backups.
Will
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