mooseAndSquirrel
Senior member
I have a new machine installed with XP. Since I have both a Radeon 8500DV and a SB Audigy, I'm having stability problems 🙂
BUT - the new features in XP are seeming to me kind of worthless. Just for fun, I keep sending the error reports to MS - they must have billions by now.
AND I just discovered that the default with a system error is to reboot! Not exactly mainframe thinking here. So I go to Control Panel | System | Advanced and go to the properties tab on the bottom and clear that check box. Maybe now I want have a spontaneous reboot every hour or so.
BUT - if I go to the event viewer, I can see the angry red X events that caused the system to crash in the first place. Since this is hyperlinked, I looked up each one and in every single instance the MS web site reports back that it's sorry, but it doesn't know a thing about my crashes.
FINALLY - one of these recent crashes was induced by clicking a hyperlink in IE6. I think I need to download the latest JVM, but it seems like MS ought to (a) not crash and (b) at least know about the problem with XP and IE.
XP's ok - I'm running it on multiple machines and I understand that on a brand new rig with brand new components I have some shaking out to do. Nevertheless, it's being touted as the "most stable windows yet" is starting to sound like "the most luxurious Yugo to date"!
