I agree with Garth. There's some malware residing on that machine.
WinXP is not resetting the hardware clock as the result of a bug. Hard
to say what other damage has already occured and has yet to occur. It
needs some serious attention.
Chuck Norcutt
Garth Wood wrote:
> At 04:44 PM 07/04/2006, Brian Swale wrote:
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> [snip]
>
>
>>Anyway ... I was amused to find that XP locks up his fairly new machine a
>>lot more than 95 does on mine, (I mean LOCKS it up) AND when it does, it
>>resets the clock to 1 January 2000. That is some kind of advance on W'95.
>>At least the clock is left alone when W'95 locks up ( Ha ! ).
>
>
>
> Experiences vary.
>
> *My* XP machines are generally quite reliable; the Dell workstation
> can putter away for weeks without incident, while my laptops tend to
> have the occasional boot lock-up ('bout once or twice a month). It's
> no big -- kill the power and re-boot.
>
> Your cousin may have other issues -- viruses or malware, badly
> fragmented hive files, etc. Various utilities exist to analyze and
> (if necessary) rectify these problems. WinXP's got its problems, but
> I sure don't miss Win95!
>
>
> Garth
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