Re: Mathematica 5 and Windows XP
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- Subject: [mg54611] Re: [mg54563] Mathematica 5 and Windows XP
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:21:14 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Under Windows XP Professional SP2, I routinely run Mathematica 5.1 concurrently with many other programs, including: NetObjects Fusion, WS_FTP Pro, WinEdt, Firefox, Thunderbird, Excel 2003. It doesn't crash on me. Skirmantas wrote: > 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. > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Mathematica 5 and Windows XP