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   Robert Persons
   Member

   The Fail Safe Mode is a great improvement for initial testings, but it needs to be improved for regular use.

   Today my PC froze due to a problem unrelated to eBoostr. After it rebooted I was focused on other issues, and it took me over 15 minutes to notice that eBoostr was not caching. I only noticed the yellow system tray icon (instead of green) by accident. Although technically oriented people (and eBoostr beta testers in particular) will notice the paused caching, non-technical users might not notice at all ... and some might not know how to turn it back on. We need to recognise that PC's will regularly crash for reasons that have nothing to do with eBoostr.

   I suggest that we should look at one of two refinements:

   1) Make the Fail Safe Mode an option that can be turned on and off. So it can be turned on for initial testing, then turned off.

   2) Implement a way for caching to restart automatically if the system is booting sucessfully. Perhaps it would restart caching after one sucessful reboot, plus ten minutes (which would give one enought time to change the configuration is eBoostr had caused the crash or freeze.) Or Perhaps eBoostr restarts caching after two sucessful reboots.

   I'm in favor of some way of automatic restart on sucessful booting, so that the user doesn't have to think about it when the PC does it's regular, occasional crash. But something should be done to improve the current implementation!

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Zeioth
   Member

   A msgbox Notifying that eboostr has been disabled for a problem should be enough. if eboostr is causing the problem and eboostr it's activated problem's could return again, having a bluescreen each 10 minutes robert.
   Anyway i like how it work's now, i'm not sure if should be changed.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Robert Persons
   Member

   For techincal users such as ourselves I can see why it's not clear this is a problem. But I'm concerned about Non-technical users. For those of us who maintain PCs for family and friends who do not think technically, this will become a problem.

   I can just imagine trying to give instructions to a non-technical person (imagine your mother): after a crash to check and see if eBoostr is caching, and then explain to them how to re-start caching. I know from experience that they won't even remember to check. What will happen is that I get a call and hear from them; "My PC isn't running as fast. What's wrong?" Then I have to talk them through how to restart caching. From my experience they need everything to be automatic ... it's already a struggle to get them to remember to do basic PC maintence without my regular help.

   A notification would be useful, and perhaps should be put in, but in my experience non-technical users ignore warning messages and system tray notifications. They have seen too many "your desktop has unused icons" type of stuff to pay any attention.

   It seems to me that the Fail Safe Mode is really only needed during the initial setup (especially with using extended memory). After that it can become a problem for those of us who maintain PCs for family and friends.

   At least we should have a setting in the settings.ini to disable Fail Safe Mode after initial installation, since PCs will continue to crash after that for many other reasons.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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