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Peter Wood <ptw@one.net.au> wrote in message news:38C4C269.2F9E2F08@one.net.au...
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Peter Wood <ptw@one.net.au> wrote

>>> I was told by someone that windows has a some 'built in' learning
>>> ability... So that when it crashes, it can somehow diagnose the
>>> cause, and try not to do it again. i.e. it has a certain amount of 'self
>>> stabilizing' ability. Is this true? Or are they having a lend of me?

>> The story has got pretty comprehensively garbled.

>> Win98 does have some 'learning' capability, but its got nothing to do
>> with crashes, it observes your usage and attempts to optimise things
>> to make the common stuff a bit faster. You can see it do that with a
>> clean install of Win98. If you watch carefully in the first day after the
>> install, it will pop up a message telling you its doing that etc.

> I thought that perhaps if you had some memory that had a bad bloc,
> maybe it would learn about it, and not use that bit, or something like that.

You can get that, but thats done by the bios at boot time, not Win9x.

> A bit like scandisk marking bad sectors.

Nar, it doesnt do it like that with memory. Its rather pointless with memory
because the way its done, you dont get localised small sections going bad often.

> The freezing problem I have been posting about for a while now,
> seems to have gone away on it's own (touch wood... lots of it!),
> so I thought maybe Windoze had 'learnt' what was causing the
> problem and was avoiding it.

Nar, its just the usual intermittent fault. It'll return if it wasnt just the
long ribbon cables and hard drive carriers that have been changed.