It’s just that I’ve never ever seen it work, the window always comes back and you never do get the opportunity to save your work.
Sometimes. Depends on how serious the fault was and what bit caused it. I’ve sometimes got away with it. Many applications work with multiple ‘chunks’, so just because one has screwed up doesn’t mean the rest are doomed, just usually. But it’s always worth trying.
Important thing to remember in these situations is always “Save As”, don’t assume everything’s hunky-dory and save over the file you already have. You could end up with nothing.
Speaking from bitter experience…
What OS are you using? It never worked for me on win95 but I’ve seen it work a couple times on '98.
W98SE, I get a lot of protection faults and assorted BSOD incidents, I’ve never once seen any OS recover from it.
Reminds me of the early days of the MacOS. We’re talking System 3 here, 512 kilobytes of RAM and no multitasking, but when you got a crash, the dialog would say something like
Yeah, right.
I always thought it would be cool if cars gave you that option too.
Internet Explorer. ALL THE TIME. Whenever it pops up with an error, I just ignore it and it works perfectly until I’m done using IE. I often wonder what error it is IE encountered that makes it need to close when it still works perfectly if I just drag the message off-screen:)
XP has been really good to me so far, Its like its got armour plating due to the Windows NT design. Apps crash and it doesn’t freaking care! Its just great. ICQ brought it down once, and its crashed on its own once, but in about a month thats not too bad. Its also fast and looks cool:)
FDISK
I’ve occasionally recovered under win98se–usually with some sort of reduced functionality, usually the sound drivers go out afterwards. Most of the time it’s less of a headache to just reboot, but occasionally I have to continue for some reason–downloading something, patching a file, recrunching a big avi or whatever.
I had that problem with IE. I think I tracked it down to the display driver (on my configuration–YMMV).
i found it works best with the use of a louisville slugger assist.
Sometimes, but only after pushing ignore about 50 times or until you can’t take it anymore. My theory is that the first GPF sets off a series of program errors and sometimes if you ignore all the errors, you can go back to your program.
Of course, at that point, you should save and shut down.
I love MicroSoft for making me learn all this useless crap. :rolleyes:
Protection faults are Windows’s way of saying, “Hey, look, one of the wheels just fell off the car. Click here to continue driving.” Sometimes it works (but it helps if you have Buddy Hackett hike his ass out the window to balance the car, and even then only if you lost the front driver’s side wheel).