[plug] [OT] What is a Windows Freeze?

[Clare Johnstone]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, ryan at is.as.geeky.as wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for that. So in short there is no easy way to fix it except reaching 
> > for the reset button. 
> 
> In a lot of cases, warm booting by pressing reset doesn't fix the problems and things are still unstable afterwards (especially with Windows 98)  It seems whatever the hardware did to offend Windows, it still maintains that offensive state after a warm boot, so a complete power off and short foot tapping is required to attempt to return things to normal.
> 
> I never believed that until I had to do it on a daily basis as work :(
> 

Well watch out for those "modern" machines that never really turn off
their power. I wasted a lot of time with a linux machine yesterday 
in which the USB cdwriter was invisible to cdrecord until I restarted from
an unplugged off state.

clare