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Some manufacturers estimate how many hours or start/stop cycles a drive will survive. There are different ways of specifying a hard drive's expected lifetime: Others suggest that the effects are insignificant when you consider that we live in an age where components aren't kept or expected to last as long as they were a number of years ago, and that they are cheaper to replace anyway. Some say that turning the computer on and off too frequently causes repeated expansion and contraction of hardware that warms up in use and can cause damage like fractures, loosening solder joints, reduced life of monitor because of the power-up surges, etc. There's mixed thoughts (all with plausible reasons) for each argument, but I don't think any of them are really proven.

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Joe, by asking whether you should turn your computer off when not using it will raise a massive debate in discussion boards less civilised and professional than Experts-Exchange. Nevertheless, it has raised a good question that we would probably never see from others who tend to turn their computers off to do their bit for saving the planet from global warming -) OK, so you ran it with the other screensaver for 4 days to test it, but it sounds like you went home from work on a Friday, or away for a fishing weekend, and left your work or home computer running by mistake.

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Yes, I too was curious about why you would have left your computer on for two full days without using it. 'realeasing loaded DLL files' should be 'releasing loaded DLL files' :-/

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I'm going to install those two screensavers and test them to see what happens.Ĭoral, you might have corrected my spelling mistake when quoting that: Themes installs other resource files, which is why if you just extract the file 'INSIDE~1.SCR' from the CD to any old folder and right-click to 'Test' it, the screensaver doesn't show. The 3D Maze is an Open GL Screesaver, whereas the 'Inside My Computer' is one of the 'theme' screensavers that requires the installation of Desktop Themes. There is a difference between these screensavers. Perhaps they are being repeatedly reloaded and released when the Maze gets to a specific action. There is a registry setting to prevent this, but the same files are being reused. Win98 is bad for not realeasing loaded DLL files from memory once the requirement for them no longer exists.

I don't suppose that you perhaps replaced the bitmap images in the 3D Maze Screensaver with particularly large image files ? That MIGHT account for the slowdown, but I would have thought that once the images were loaded once it would cache them for future use rather than reloading them each time the Maze got to the same wall again. MSVCRT20.DLL - Very old Microsoft Visual C Runtime library The first difference between these files (apart from the apparently associated 'inside~1.pal' file that would appear to be a colour palette for the bitmap images used in the screensaver) are the other DLL files required by it: SSMAZE.SCR - 3D Maze (from WIN98_52.CAB of a Win98se CD) INSIDE~1.SCR - Inside My Computer (from WIN98_69.CAB of a Win98se CD along with inside~1.pal) The screensaver files you are referring to are: I move desktop folders and icons around so much that the only constant hat could leave a shadow is the Task Bar, but it's never been evident on any CRT monitor I have ever used.

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Screensavers are now more just aesthetic fun than functional as they were with older monitors that left screen burn, unless of course you have them set with a password for unattended workstation security reasons. because I've got 6 spare monitors sitting in a cupboard (eBay irresistable job lot), and my monitor is set to power down and save the planet while I go off and try and find out about things like the '3D Maze Screensaver' -) Personally speaking, I never install 'Themes' or have a screensaver running.

I'm subscribing to this at the moment not because I can offer anything constructive right now, but because I am intrigued and want to see what the likes of blue_zee, LeeTutor, coral47, callrs, etc.