Re: Stops Working

I do have one suggestion that may or may not prove worthless, anybody's guess really.

I have found Vista to be very sensitive to video driver problems. Also, it seems quite sensitive to motherboard driver problems. Indeed that is the very reason why I targeted both of them for download before anything else. So last night I tried the mobo driver first which is when IE failed 4 times in a row, but then after the video driver update all has been fine since. Was it something to do with the video driver? Who knows.

You might try the NVidia site to see if they can detect new drivers for your machines, if NVidia is not used no harm done. If not them then Gateway's or HP's websites may have updated drivers.



MichaelBN wrote:
I thought I gave you some hints.

I will be more specific. As this has happened to me on three machines, a Gateway desktop, my Gateway laptop and my wife’s HP laptop, I would ask you a favor. Please don’t direct me to the various third party corporations. They sent me here after they thought they gave me downloads that would fix the problems. Of course, they’re going to say it’s Microsoft which is at “fault”, and I mean “fault” in the most dignified manner.

By the way, Nonny, what does “F” stand for? Ken, you’re an MVP. Is “F” the kind of non representation that Microsoft wants non experts to be expressing toward their peers. Quite a temper.

That, of course, is another problem.

I had Internet Explorer stopped working quite a few times on all three computers. I actually think that I downloaded a patch that seems to have fixed it for the most part.

Microsoft Word, Office 2007, began to “stop working” the day after I purchased this, the Gateway laptop.

As I said, I was told that temp Word files that were hanging around here and there were the reason it was quitting. As tracking down temp files is, for me at least, much more complicated than it was on XP, I not only deleted any files under Users>my username>AppData>Local>Temp, none of which were Word temp files, but I did a search for “.tmp” and told the OS to look “everywhere”, not just in indexed areas. I found a few “.tmp” files of which few were Word.

That was on the Gateway desk top. The day after I purchased this laptop, Word “stopped working”. How many Word “.tmp” files can there be on a one day old computer? I did the search and that question was answered for me. None.

I can’t finish a Word document without “Word has stopped working”, followed up by a choice between “close the program” and “Word is starting up”. Then, of course, there’s the choice of which copy of my document I want to keep. Finishing a Word document takes quite a while under these conditions.

OK, there’s Word and IE. Are there any peers that can help me with that particular problem?

Sony Acid 4 is a very old version, so I thought I might have trouble with it. I record music, live. When I plug my instruments in, I set Acid and, when I’m ready to play, I click start, the marker moves, the counter counts and I record. This never happened to me with XP, but, after playing a note or two, the screen fades and the famous “Acid has stopped working” appears.

I restart the machine, do my part all over again and, badabing badaboom “Acid has stopped working”. Tough to record a whole song when I can’t record part of a track.

So I broke down and bought Sony’s latest, Acid Pro 6, did my part, clicked start and “Acid stopped working”. No songs recorded yet with Vista.

Sony did have a download which they said may help the problem. I downlooaded it and bada…well, you know.

So far, IE, which is quitting less frequently, Word, which isn’t even running long enough to complete a document without it quitting on several occasions, Sony music software, which Sony offered me help with (and didn’t call me one name) have “stopped working” problems.

There’s a generic “Windows Explorer has stopped working” which is a once a day or at least evey other day occurrence.

Thus far, I need assistance on Word, Sony Acid 6 and Windows Explorer. How do I stop them from “stop working”?

My wife’s game entitled Sherlock Holmes by a company named Adventure Company has stopped working. She’s not seen level one or whatever the game has, I don’t play it but I saw the dreaded fading screen and “Sherlock Holmes has stopped working”, which is to be understood as he died quite a few years ago.

But, all seriousness aside, can we get some help with Sherlock Holmes by Adventure Company?

Those are some specifics.

What do all of these problems have in common. We’re trying to run them on Vista.

How is that meaningful?

Word, IE, Windows Explorer and Sony music mixing software never quit while running under the XP operating system.

That’s about as specific as I can get. There’s no point in time, like quitting after 3 minutes or during the recording of track 2 or 3 or when I’m recording guitar or piano or when Windows Explorer opens this or that program or this number of programs or that number of programs or when I’m using Outlook and Word or Exel and Word. There’s no particular trigger that I’ve noted which ultimately results in “stopped working” messages.

I tried real hard not to be sarcastic, I tried to give you specifics and now, if you’d be so kind, could we try to fix the “stopped working” problems with the programs I mentioned in this thread?

Thanks so very much.

Michael Bonanno


"NetLink_Blue" wrote:

"MichaelBN" <MichaelBN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:57DAF210-DF12-4A2B-BA28-9926CBB38D44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

By now it should be obvious that, under the Vista operating system, I have
Home Premium, there is a severe overall, general "has stopped working"
problem.
{snip}

There's a lot of truth in your observation, though these forums magnify the problem. I believe Microsoft has reached a critical point as a company, and Vista painfully mirrors the bloated, greedy and out-of-focus company that spawned it.

I am running a high-horsepower computer, and Vista cruises along very well. But Vista is a huge hairball of code. Some sections seem to run well, but there may be parts that are patched and kludged together. How far can software writers and MS push code complexity before the whole thing collapses under it's own weight? I guess we will see, sports fans.


Is there no an overall "stopped working" patch or something that Microsoft
has released by now?
No, other than going back to WinXP. Vista is the Titanic. We shall see if MS can keep it afloat.
{snip}


Michael Bonanno
mandtbn@xxxxxxxxx

NetLink Blue


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