Re: Finding W2K was Re: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks Kari - - suspend has always been a problem with Windows. But I
can't live without it, so I put up with a crash every now and then.
Win 8 seems better, but it is not impervious. It would be interesting
to know why and how Apple always does a better job on this particular
feature, especially given that the processors are now the same. In
Win 8 and with the latest hardware, there are all some new and
special flavors suspend, but I don't know much about it. Like you, I
have never had a problem suspending a VM either in VMware or VBox.


At 24/07/2014 08:59, you wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I think you should simply cancel the suspend feature. On the other
> hand, suspending or saving the machine state of a VBox W2K VM is
> what I do regularly without any problems. But suspending or waking
> up a real Windows 7 machine can cause serious problems, as I
> recently discovered when one of my Win 7 machines on my home network
> lost its IP address. I first thought the network card had died, when
> Windows was unable to restore the IP address. The situation was
> finally solved by powering off all routers and connecting devices.
> Apparently the Windows machine had caused an electrical malfunction
> in the router.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
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> 24.7.2014 0:44, Bill Troop wote:
> > As to avoiding crashes, I don't know how to do it! 95% of the
> > crashes I experience in Win 7 or Win 8 are upon wakeup from
> > suspend. I have simply always assumed that suspend is one of those
> > things that Microsoft will never be able to do well even though
> > Apple has always managed it well. Baffling!