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Message no. 1
From: Drea O'Dare <dreaodare@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Saving your data
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:27:30 PDT
>The rest of thsi message which u snipped said it was in German, so it
>did tell him to save and close, just in German:)
>OTOH, you are right about EVERY windows install saying that, so it
>should be an assumed thing, but then, why didn't the programs come up
>and say they needed saving when it tried to close them?

I'm a she, actually. And I had NO clue what it was saying. not every
windows program restarts your computer. Most will say "Would you like
to restart your computer now?" AFTER it's installed the software. This
thing hadn't done any of that. Before it has installed anything, it
just popped up a window in German; I pressed the button, and it
restarted my computer. Unless you manually shut down your computer, no
dialog boxes pop up to say "Are you sure? You have unsanved info..."
So no, it's not a given. I've never seen another program do this.

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: [OT] Saving your data
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:47:22 +0200
According to Drea O'Dare, at 9:27 on 26 Sep 98, the word on the street was...

> I'm a she, actually. And I had NO clue what it was saying.

I'll grant you that the German for this wouldn't look much like the
English words.

> not every
> windows program restarts your computer. Most will say "Would you like
> to restart your computer now?" AFTER it's installed the software. This
> thing hadn't done any of that. Before it has installed anything, it
> just popped up a window in German; I pressed the button, and it
> restarted my computer.

That _is_ weird.

> Unless you manually shut down your computer, no
> dialog boxes pop up to say "Are you sure? You have unsanved info..."

Is it the way I read this, or did you accidentally say the reverse of what
you intended to say?

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Message no. 3
From: Drea O'Dare <dreaodare@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Saving your data
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:56:54 PDT
>> Unless you manually shut down your computer, no
>> dialog boxes pop up to say "Are you sure? You have unsanved info..."
>Is it the way I read this, or did you accidentally say the reverse of
what
>you intended to say?

Here's what happens when you shut down your computer while working on
things with Windows 95. It says "Shut down the computer?" And you
click yes or no. You click yes, and the shuts down the computer. No
bothering with saving information or anything. When another application
shuts down your computer, the same thing happens - a dialog box opens
and says "Do you want to restart your computer now?" and if you click
yes, then it shuts down your computer, paying, once again, no heed to
any other applications that you have open. But anyway, this is an OT
thread, and it's gone on a bit too long.

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Message no. 4
From: Michael vanHulst <Schizi@***.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] Saving your data
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:33:33 EDT
In a message dated 9/26/98 10:47:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gurth@******.NL
writes:

> > Unless you manually shut down your computer, no
> > dialog boxes pop up to say "Are you sure? You have unsanved info..."
>
> Is it the way I read this, or did you accidentally say the reverse of what
> you intended to say?
What I think she meant by "manually shutting down" is actually closing all the
programs yourself instead of using the Windows shutdown feature. With
Shutdown, no warning, but with manually closing every program, you get
whatever warning.

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