Re: My computer always restarts

Doberek wrote:

That was a great and good infor. Ken I was always looks about some
help in posting messages on web. This helps me to an extent.


You're welcome. Glad to help.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

ChristinaTC wrote:

Mr. Blake,


No formality is necessary. Just "Ken" is fine.


Thanks for the suggestions. I have unchecked "automatic restart"
and will see if it helps.


You're welcome. Let us know what it says. I, or someone else, can
perhaps steer you in the right direction.


I am using a UPS, so that shouldn't be it -- we looked into that
when the problem first started.


Good. You're way ahead of me, then.


I will post details when I get the diagnostic from the next crash.

And about the e-mail address... I had misunderstood and thought that
we were supposed to include it here as well as signing in with it...


Several points, here:

1. Although you *can* include an E-mail address, it's not necessary.
Very few people will be willing to respond to you directly. When
questions are asked of the group, answers should be posted to the
group, but others are often interested and want to see the answers
too.

2. If you *do* post your E-mail address or even include it as your
return address, it's never a good idea to post it in easily-readable
form, because spambots go through newsgroups and harvest addresses.
Since you did this, you are likely to see an increase in the spam
you get. Do it in your signature something like this:

cristinonospam@xxxxxxx (remove nospam to reply)

Personally, I never include my real E-mail address in any form,
because I prefer never to get private replies from the newsgroups.
As you can see if you try to reply to me personally, the mail will
fail because it will try to be sent to
kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

3. One thing you should definitely do when you post here (or in other
newsgroups) is alway quote enough of the message you are responding
to to put your reply into context (as I did above). Many newsgroup
participants (me, for example) don't save already-read messages and
a message without a quote is likely to be completely unintelligible
to people.

4. Because you are posting on a web site, you perhaps don't even
realize that this is a newsgroup. The web site you are using is just
a lame interface to the newsgroup. As far as I'm concerned (and most
regulars here will agree with me) the web interface is the slowest,
clunkiest, most error-prone way of participating here there is. Do
yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook
Express, which comes with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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