Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by 0xedb » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 8:38 AM UTC

Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime
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Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by hncensorsnonpc » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

From what thine is this? It says "There IS a bug ... NOW patched" Should make no sense anyway but I see no time attached to this.

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by jaclaz » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 9:57 AM UTC

hncensorsnonpc wrote: post #2

From what thine is this? It says "There IS a bug ... NOW patched" Should make no sense anyway but I see no time attached to this.

The cited MS KB has been archived starting November 9, 2004:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041109020858/http://support.mi...

It is dated August 2004 (it is revision 3.2) but the patch (for Windows 98) has a date:

Release Date: Jun-04-1999

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 10:00 AM UTC

hncensorsnonpc wrote: post #2

From what thine is this? It says "There IS a bug ... NOW patched" Should make no sense anyway but I see no time attached to this.

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Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by The_suffocated » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 10:19 AM UTC

This bug reminds me of the plot of the 1996 Japanese crime story "Subete ga F ni Naru" (The Perfect Insider).

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by cafard » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 12:03 PM UTC

In one of Jon Bentley's "Pearls" books is a chapter of rules of thumb. One states that "Pi seconds is a nanocentury."

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by justanotherc » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

Nowadays you don't even get CLOSE to 49 days uptime before Win10 forces you to restart due to updates ;s

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by sitzkrieg » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 12:08 PM UTC

unfortunately recreated this issue recently keeping track of freertos current tick on a 32 bit embedded system :)

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by webmobdev » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 12:44 PM UTC

justanotherc wrote: post #7

Nowadays you don't even get CLOSE to 49 days uptime before Win10 forces you to restart due to updates ;s

Well, that's one way to the fix the bug ... ;)

Re: Why Windows 95 and 98 would crash after 49.7 days of uptime

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Post by tsomctl » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 1:12 PM UTC

justanotherc wrote: post #7

Nowadays you don't even get CLOSE to 49 days uptime before Win10 forces you to restart due to updates ;s

My laptop with Win10 is at 72 days.

I created a bat file with:

  net stop wuauserv
  sc config wuauserv start= disabled

and then scheduled it to run every 10 minutes. The problem with that is you now have to remember to disable it and check for updates when you have time, which I'm obviously not doing.