Re: Mathematica 5 and Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg54608] Re: [mg54563] Mathematica 5 and Windows XP
- From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:21:12 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Skirmantas, > > I suspect Mathematica 5 was the culprit of two nasty Windows > XP crashes I have experienced during the past four months. In > the second one, Internet Explorer (which was running when > Mathematica's kernel > crashed) got hopelessly corrupted. I'm not 100% sure it's > Mathematica, but it is my prime suspect. Even if it is > Mathematica, I'm ready to forgive it because it is such a > great piece of software otherwise. > However, it would it interesting to know when Mathematica is > known to crash and what can be done to avoid destabilizing > Windows (which is NOT a great piece of software). After the > second crash, my rule is > this: don't run anything else when Mathematica is working. This is totally contrary to my experience since Mathematica 3 & Windows 3.1. Especially, it is contrary to my current Mathematica 5 & XP Pro setup. I would suggest a thorough hardware check. Dave. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 22/02/2005
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