lforbes

Really - Well in 6 months it hasn't crashed for me yet except with IE 7 once
in awhile if I have over 20 tabs open.

I run all sorts of old and 3rd party software including tons of older
children's software and it all runs fine. For everything that isn't Vista
certified, I just run in compatibility mode and it runs without issue.

I have a new machine with an OEM copy. I never ever do upgrades as my
experience is that they are never stable. I always do a clean install and
migrate settings.

Cheers,
Lara

"Saran" wrote:

> lforbes wrote:
> > "Saran" wrote:
> >> lforbes wrote:
> >>> Where is the file located? Is it on the desktop? I found this
> >>> happened when the folder was open. I solved this by moving the file
> >>> to a empty folder and then deleting the folder (without opening it).
> >>>
> >>> By the way I have seen this problem in XP as well.
> >>
> >> Yes a similar problem used to be in XP (though I haven't seen it for
> >> quite some time), but it didn't persist between reboots. Again,
> >> seeing as this was a known problem in XP (seemingly before an update
> >> was released, which would imply there was a solution) I find it
> >> inexcusable that it remains, ever worse, in Vista.
> >>
> >> -saran
> >
> > It was when the preview pane was open. I can still recreate the error
> > in XP so it wasn't fixed.
>
> I haven't run into this problem in well over a year, nor can I reproduce
> it like I used to be able, so I can only say this must of come about
> from one of the updates.
>
> > I have been a network tech (Mac and PC)
> > for almost 20 years so I have seen a lot of changes that are more
> > drastic than Vista. Personally the change from Mac's OS 9 to OSX was
> > far worse as OSX just didn't let you install any software that wasn't
> > written for it and crashed constantly.
>
> That actually does sound like Vista in certain respects; it does have a
> habit of crashing on certain softwares... hell it even crashes on some
> programs that -are- written for it... go figure. Given how long
> Microsoft claiemd thye worked on it, these problems are just
> unacceptable imho.
>
> -saran
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