crash prevention utilities

[simpat1zq]

Do those crash prevention utilities that claim to reduce lockups, and application crashes actually work? And if they do, can anyone recommend which ones they think are the best?

 

[MasterEvilAce]

if you're talking about something like Norton's shied, or whatever
the way THAT works is if something is crashing / freezing up
it detects it, and allows you to close it
which helps usually

but it's mainly just a resource hog
get a stable OS and you won't really need it

 

[simpat1zq]

well, I'm dual booting XP and 98, XP hasn't crashed on me since I installed it in mid October, but I use 98 for games, and the internet, since it connects faster on dial up for some reason, but 98 seems to crash at least every other day.