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Thread ID: 32525 2003-04-21 08:42:00 PressF1 Survey: How often does your Browser/PC/ProgramX crash? Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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137560 2003-04-21 20:28:00 >Mind you, I wish I could say that a P4 2.4 ran noticeably faster than a P3 733. I don't think I can.
robo.


Cor,now that would be a dissapointment,I mean to say!
Thomas (1820)
137561 2003-04-21 22:20:00 Year 2002 I crashed at least once a week but NOW I can't remember my last CRASH....
Why..........
I NOW scandisk and DEFRAG Daily and my defrags have gone from HOURS to MINUTES>>>>>................98SE
olldaddy76 (2539)
137562 2003-04-22 01:02:00 One's I get my computer fixed & a new motherboard (long story they ;) ) then I will tell you what Programs crash.

But before I had problems with my Win ME pc, I can go for days with out rebooting or some times I need to reboot twice or more, depends on what I am doing.
stu140103 (137)
137563 2003-04-22 01:46:00 Running Windows XP Pro and IE 6 . 0 . I used to have lots of crashes in all programmes after my initial installation of XP Pro .

Completely unpredictable, always crashed to a screen that was a solid block of colour with parallel vertical bars . Could be any colour of the rainbow - again completely unpredicable, but it seemed to prefer green . There was no pattern to which programmes were running when it crashed .

XP Pro had been installed over the top of Win98SE . In an attempt to stop the crashing, I had a techie reformat my drive and do a fresh install of XP Pro . Result - no change to the crashing behaviour - if anything it was more frequent rather than less .

The techie decided that my display card was at fault . It was time to upgrade the box anyway, so I installed a new mother board with sound and video on board, and the old display board was biffed . A new, larger, 7200rpm drive was installed at the same time, plus a clean install of XP Pro and all programmes .

Since then (several weeks ago), I have not had a single crash in any programme .

Keeps fingers crossed, throws salt over shoulder .

John
John H (8)
137564 2003-04-22 02:17:00 XP Pro - Never Crashed - longest uptime that I remember 46 days

IE 6 - crashed at least once every few days for no good reason that I could see

Mozilla - probably once a week, again seemingly random. (must be the websites I visit ;-))

Router (running Bering firewall) - I had to reboot just last weekend for the first time in.... 5 months? the net suddenly wasnt working, I checked cables, NIC's, rang my ISP & network providers... I had such faith in the router ;-)
flying_green_leprachaun (1767)
137565 2003-04-22 06:13:00 > In opera7 I usually right-clicked on the page and
> went 'close tab' . In opera7 . 1 they really, really,
> really stuffed it up and put the 'close all' tab
> really close to the 'close tab', so when I'm in a
> hurry I accidentally move the mouse down a little too
> far (1mm) and hit close all and it closes opera down
> with all my 10windows with it! #$@#!$@* Its really
> really pissing me off, and I think I'll go abuse the
> people at opera now so they fix it!

Why don't you use your keyboard to close tabs? Ctrl+W will do the job . Or if you like to keep a grip on things . . . er, your mouse, all the time use Mouse Gestures - go to Help > Mouse Gestures and learn them, they are so handy . To close tabs you have two choices:

Method 1: hold right button, move down then right
Method 2: hold right button, move right left right

And if they don't suit you, you can create your own .

Don't bother abusing the Opera people, they are a great bunch and don't need that kind of thing (if you were not joking) .


> Also people DO NOT download the latest java virtual
> machine update from sun "j2re-1_4_1_02" because it
> has just stuffed up java on my machine, and it won't
> even uninstall so I can fix it . Consequently I can't
> access my hushmail :\

Are you talking about Hotmail? I can get into Hotmail with Opera - just change Opera's Browser Identitification in Preferences > Network to MSIE6 and they will let you in .

I don't think you have explored Opera enough yet . ;-)
Susan B (19)
137566 2003-04-22 07:00:00 >Are you talking about Hotmail? I can get into Hotmail with Opera - just >change Opera's Browser Identitification in Preferences>Network to >MSIE6 and they will let you in .

No I'm talking about -HUSHmail- :) Haven't you heard of it? Crazy . . . www . hush . com or www . cyber-rights . net you can sign up for a free 2mb account . At least you won't get junkmail from them, like hotmail who sells your email to every spammer they can find . "Hotmail is Junkmail" . Plus you get 2048bit encryption . They used to give you free 7mb accounts when I signed up but not anymore .

>I don't think you have explored Opera enough yet .

Maybe so . I still found it annoying though . BTW the mouse gestures thing doesn't work for me at all . .

Other than that the browser is miles better than any other I've used
PoWa (203)
137567 2003-04-22 08:14:00 I run 98SE an older puter, rebuilt about two years ago, and I crash daily. I run IE5.5, and as soon as I try and open OE with yahoo messenger going, I am in trouble. Don't tell me to repair IE as there is no option anywhere to repair, and it won't let me reinstall. I used to have the repair option in Add/Remove, but since the rebuild, and new harddrive and motherboard, and installation of 98 over 95, guess I know what the problem is, but still haven't got quite game enough to try and reformat. So I just put up with it, knowing that sometime between 7pm when I turn it on, till around 11pm, when it gets turned back off, it is going to crash, regardless of what I do. supergran (108)
137568 2003-04-22 10:48:00 > No I'm talking about -HUSHmail- Haven't you heard of it?

Nope, never heard of it . They say you learn something new everyday . ;-)


> BTW the mouse gestures thing doesn't work for me at all . .

The first time you use mouse gestures Opera asks you if you wish to continue using them -- I am wondering whether you said "no" to this option accidentally? There would be something in the Preferences somewhere to enable them again I would think . I have not got Opera installed right now (don't ask . . . . ) so I cannot check for you .


> Other than that the browser is miles better than any other I've used

I agree . Pity I had to go and stuff mine up with my fiddling . I now have a lot of work to do to get it back how it was before . :_|
Susan B (19)
137569 2003-04-22 11:33:00 what were the old and new parts??
perhaps we can draw some insight into it so to avoid some things to save a system from crashing..
rayonline (2134)
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