Server Help

[SpecShip]

I'm sick and tired of windows freezing out on me.
Yeah, no blue screen now, the dumb kernel just stops talking with the CPU or something and the OS doesn't respond anymore and if you try to shutdown it gets stuck on the closing screen, if I terminate explorer.exe dumb thing doesnt rerun itself, at least that worked in win98 so I could get out of desktop locks, sigh.
No way I'm gonna format or start uninstalling progs to find where the mole or fuck up is at.
So anyway, I thought, if I can turn my PC into VPS, and run out of a psuedo account so when the dumb thing locks up the upper level is still running and I can just reset the account without having to physically reboot the machine.

BLAH.

What do you say, can it be done, will it work?
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[Cyan~Fire]

Reformatting seems to make more sense to me.
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[Muskrat]

I've wondered why explorer dosen't restart itself as well, drives me insane.

[Mine GO BOOM]

If your operating system is crashing, running it under another one won't be of much greater help. As for restarting explorer, use CTRL+ALT+DELETE to get into Task Manager, File->Run, explorer.

If you really want to play with virtual machines, VMware Player and VMware Server are both free and will allow you to run Windows/Linux/BSD under a master operating system, which can be Windows/Linux/BSD. So, for what you want:

Reformat and installed Windows. Just patch the system, and don't put anything else on it. Then install Player/Server. Setup Server with a new Windows installation, and setup Windows to boot into Player. This will allow you to run Windows inside of Windows. But be warned, this still emulates some hardware, such as the video card, so games will act like complete shit.

[SpecShip]

Why fomratting blows:

Lose cookies.
Lose favorites.
Lose gigas of porn, game data, screenshots, logs, websites work, code, d/l'd apps, etc. etc. etc.

You know, if you format because some program gone rogue, reinstalling the shit you had (because, like, they're "essentials", you know ) isn't going to fix the problem, shit will just conflict again.
Lately it would seem, no idea why (maybe it became corrupt, virii? spyware?), zonealarm is causing all the termoil.
Sigh.


Well, Murphy, so long as ONE OS keep on running (how about *nix master, win32 slave?) I can always purge the memory and rerun the second OS, remain with control, you know.
I just hate having to reboot the machine every time the damn thing gets stuck or forcing hardware shutdown when the software shutdown doesn't work (can destroy the HD you know, might fuck up the CPU one day, dunno why or how, but shit always happens to me).



Muskrat, yeah, it's kinda stinky.
In Power Pack 2k there's a tweaking option that's supposed to rerun it if it crash (I guess it doesn't treat it as a crash when I terminate the process because it doesn't work).
Thanks Murphy, I haven't even ever bothered to look at the file menu, heh.

[Dr Brain]

[Mine GO BOOM]

Two or more hard drives. One for OS and applications, one for data and backups. If your OS is starting to go screwy, you can backup the data you need off the one drive to the other, and install Windows anew. Or, my method, every year just buy another hard drive and install Windows there. According to PSP 3.12, this Windows install has been running for 2.3 years fine. The only reason the it was reinstalled was because I got a new motherboard.

Hard drives are cheap. If too expensive where you live, let me know and I could buy one here off Dell or something when they get cheap and remail it to you.

[Dr Brain]

Two computers is the way I do it. It's slower, but I don't need to have two drives in every computer (I have 3 personal computers, plus 4 more directly managed by me, plus numerous formats for that I do for other people on my network).

Swapping drives is a possibility, I know, but it can be a real pain sometimes finding an extra power cable in some of the smallers computers, and I'm too lazy to walk down two flights of stairs to get a Y cable. So that leaves network pushes and pulls.

[Solo Ace]

Convince my dad to make backups.
He reformats his (single) hard drive without writing down any network settings and without making any backups.
And since it's some other company doing the network/security/hardware and whatever, AND since they don't have 24/7 support I'm the one who's supposed to fix everything, without any info, before 8 in the morning!

I'm getting a Maxtor Network drive saturday, maybe that'd be something for you too, Brain.

[SpecShip]

I have 1 PC with 1 HD formatted into two drives of 58.5MB and 90.4MB, both are near full capacity, both being used.
Exactly where would I 'save'?


If I was orginized and caring enough, I would've used norton ghost to keep creating recent mirror images.
I used to save the registry often but that too loosened from my mind soon enough.

The really real best ideal resolution is by using VPS or something similar (not the so called accounts of winXP that thing is the GAYLORD, I swear!) to create a sandbox for testing shit, sandbox for gaming, sandbox for coding and sandbox for debugging/admin/maintenance/wtfever.

I hate windows.

[Solo Ace]

I guess you're screwed then, except if you're ready to lose everything or borrow/buy something to save.

Uhm, and well, don't you mean GB? Otherwise I really wonder how you got WinXP to run on that hard drive.

[Cyan~Fire]

Can't you copy your important data to the other partition and then format the faulty one?

[SpecShip]

Ops! Heh, yes, GB.

Well, you know, back in my days having 8MB was considered leet, so...kinda got used to typing MBs.