My memory fails me

[HV Ken]

The following tips were posted on the ATX blog today. What they are saying is this: since our programming practices are too lazy to find and fix our memory leaks, you need to close the program every 15 minutes and reboot your computer three times per day.

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The following are best practices that you should use in order to ensure optimal ATX performance:

Restart computers daily to clear the computer's memory, helping your system work more effectively.

Close ATX and/or PCR whenever you leave your desk for an extended period (e.g. for lunch or a meeting), or, at least at the end of your day. Like a computer restart, this also helps clear memory used by ATX/PCR, and will help the application work more efficiently.

Roll over returns for clients at least 1 day before the appointment, and make sure to close ATX and/or PCR at the end of the day. If you have to rollover the return just before the appointment, close ATX and restart to refresh the memory at your next possible opportunity.

Close and relaunch ATX and/or PCR prior to opening large returns with many forms or records. Large returns require more memory to calculate, print, and e-file--so restarting the application in advance will give you the most system resources possible to handle this.

[Lee B]

It looks like ATX still has all the same problems, it had when I left 3 years ago.

[jklcpa]

No reason to fix it if users are willing to put up with these problems. 

[Catherine]

22 hours ago, cbslee said:

It looks like ATX still has all the same problems, it had when I left 3 years ago.

Same problems as the ones I ran from in early February 2013.  

[GLJEANNE]

Oy.  Mine crashes at least once a day this year, but I've been using it to remind myself to get up and move around, lol.