Future of the group
MRT
considerable time now. I think the last one I approved was 12 months
ago. The posts appearing for moderation are alomost exclusively
autoposted spam mails that are deleted either automatically or by the
moderator.
I have made enquiries recently about the mechanisms for declaring a
newsgroup as dead and have that information available. There would
appear to be support for pursuing that course of action. However I
recognise that there are a few people still watching the group and our
previously regular contributors will be amongst those.
The newsgroup was set up initially through a process of need and
support and I felt it only fair to take the views of those still
watching the group to add their views on the future of the group.
In workload terms managing the group is not onerous so I am happy to
maintain the group if it is felt there is still a need. Equally if it
has run its course and there is little, if any, genuine activity then
for the few posts that might come to the group there may be an
alternative forum through which answers can be obtained.
I am not seeking a vote or anything formal but would be interested in
your views as to the future of the group.
Thank you
Martin Tierney
Moderator, Group Administrator
Martin Leese
> This group has not received a valid moderator approved post for some
> considerable time now. I think the last one I approved was 12 months
> ago. The posts appearing for moderation are alomost exclusively
> autoposted spam mails that are deleted either automatically or by the
> moderator.
> I am not seeking a vote or anything formal but would be interested in
> your views as to the future of the group.
Hi Martin,
I still watch the group, but then I still run
Win95. I suspect the group is little used only
because Win95 is now little used. The only
other place I know of for people to obtain help
is comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95. This also
has very little traffic.
If there was to be a vote on whether the group
should be discontinued, I would probably
abstain.
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mt110506
Miowarra Tomokatu (aka Tomo)
I've not posted here before, but then I'm running Win98SE and couldn't
find a more OS-appropriate ng.
I've only been lurking for a few months anyway, but I see so many
groups on the "All Groups" directory which are ostensibly still active
but obviously dead that I wonder whether it's really necessary to
declare the group inactive and have it removed. Perhaps a sufficient
step would be to post a notice that the group was no longer being
moderated?
However, before any action is taken, I originally came here to seek
some advice.
For years now, I have had several tasks running under the Task
Scheduler, notably disk maintenance tasks and in particular the
defragmenter which should run every Saturday morning, between 3am and
5am.
Immediately after some recent (February is recent - right?) antivirus
software (full engine upgrade - not just a new signature listing)
updates.(among other downloads, installations and updates - it was a
busy weekend) my defrag task started failing in the following way.
The task would start - reach maybe 5% complete and then the dreaded
error message "Disk contents changed - restarting". The task had to be
stopped manually.
What I want is a reference to a utility which will allow me to trace
the application which is writing back to my C: drive (doesn't happen
on my D: (DATA) drive) with a thought to eliminating it.
Something FREE would be nice, because I don't forsee any great need
for an ongoing use for this utility. Something off TUCOWS would be
good, there's a convenient mirror site only 600 miles away.
Dr Watson and Cool Beans can't find any problem, but I am also running
various pop-up blockers, spam filters, Spyware S&D and they're not
picking up any malware effects.
Any suggestions? I can provide a Dr Watson system snapshot if wanted.
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mt1205
see.my.s...@nowhere.com.invalid
(Martin Leese) spewed:
>MRT wrote:
>> This group has not received a valid moderator approved post for some
>> considerable time now. I think the last one I approved was 12 months
>> ago. The posts appearing for moderation are alomost exclusively
>> autoposted spam mails that are deleted either automatically or by the
>> moderator.
>...
>> I am not seeking a vote or anything formal but would be interested in
>> your views as to the future of the group.
>
>Hi Martin,
>
>I still watch the group, but then I still run
>Win95. I suspect the group is little used only
>because Win95 is now little used. The only
>other place I know of for people to obtain help
>is comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95. This also
>has very little traffic.
>
The 2 highest traffic groups I see are alt.windows95 and
comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc.
Everything else is pretty much dead.
These are the 1st posts I've seen in here forever... well, except mine (I
crosspost to it alot :)
>If there was to be a vote on whether the group
>should be discontinued, I would probably
>abstain.
Wha?! Vote NOT to!
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mt290506
see.my.s...@nowhere.com.invalid
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posts and may be dead.
I agree, there SHOULD be 98SE groups!
>I've only been lurking for a few months anyway, but I see so many
>groups on the "All Groups" directory which are ostensibly still active
>but obviously dead that I wonder whether it's really necessary to
>declare the group inactive and have it removed. Perhaps a sufficient
>step would be to post a notice that the group was no longer being
>moderated?
>
>However, before any action is taken, I originally came here to seek
>some advice.
>
>For years now, I have had several tasks running under the Task
>Scheduler, notably disk maintenance tasks and in particular the
>defragmenter which should run every Saturday morning, between 3am and
>5am.
>
>Immediately after some recent (February is recent - right?) antivirus
>software (full engine upgrade - not just a new signature listing)
>updates.(among other downloads, installations and updates - it was a
>busy weekend) my defrag task started failing in the following way.
>
Some AV soft will hang a defrag. Usually it's not really crashing it,
it's just making it endlessly restart because the AV prog. keeps writing
to disk to some log file or somesuch.
Solution is to boot into safe mode and do defrag there, then reboot once
it's done.
>The task would start - reach maybe 5% complete and then the dreaded
>error message "Disk contents changed - restarting". The task had to be
>stopped manually.
>
>What I want is a reference to a utility which will allow me to trace
>the application which is writing back to my C: drive (doesn't happen
>on my D: (DATA) drive) with a thought to eliminating it.
>
Gotta be the AV by process of deduction from what you said.
You might be able to figure out the process and kill it, but the safe mode
thing is easier.
If you want, maybe if you list the processes that are running when your
defrag hangs, somebody here can tell you what's the AV one.
>Something FREE would be nice, because I don't forsee any great need
>for an ongoing use for this utility. Something off TUCOWS would be
>good, there's a convenient mirror site only 600 miles away.
>
I use Wintop. You can't kill all tasks, just what show in the
ctrl-alt-del, but it does show them all whereas the other does not.
>Dr Watson and Cool Beans can't find any problem, but I am also running
>various pop-up blockers, spam filters, Spyware S&D and they're not
>picking up any malware effects.
>
Well, those also could be causing the defrag hang.
Any resident scanner of any type can do it.
Try turning off all your AV, spyware, and antispam prog's "active
protection" and it may work.
But still, safe mode is just soooo much simpler.
No going in and switching settings every time you defrag.
Oh, also, there is a GREAT program called Diskeeper that is a 3rd party
defragger. It will NOT hang no matter how much is running. In fact, you
can even keep working. It's also faster, and allows placement of certain
files/progs at certain places on the disk for faster disk access. For
ex., you'd put your swap file first and media files last, freq. accessed
progs in the middle, etc.
I think their site is www.executivesoftware.com, but just going from mem.
A search will turn it up easy because it only has one "k" :)
HTH
>Any suggestions? I can provide a Dr Watson system snapshot if wanted.
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Hehehh, good one :)