Notepad Disappears!

[Guest]

XP Professional SP2, all updates.
I open Notepad, click File-Open, click Desktop on the left, hover over a
text file until flyover help appears, then Cancel.
I click File-Open again, click Desktop on the left, and hover over a text
file again.
Poof! Notepad disappears without a trace.
Tried it on various computers with various flavors of XP, all break.
Vista and 2000 don't break. If you have an XP PC, you should be able to
reproduce easily.

 

[Guest]

Yes, I can reproduce that bug. You should report it to Microsoft. Open iE,
Help menu, "Send Feedback."

 

[Guest]

I was hoping that by posting on this forum, my bug report would get to the
appropriate engineers.
In my wildest dreams, I was hoping this would get to them in time to be
fixed in SP3.
This is a Windows XP bug, not a Notepad bug. I have made this happen with
other programs, it was only when I did it with notepad too that I realized
that it wasn't the programs that were buggy, but Windows XP.
I really don't feel I should pay $59 to tell Microsoft they have a bug.
When I went to the "Send Feedback" page suggested, my choices were to post
to an IE7 forum, or call an 866 number. I called, and got sent to India, and
got the typical runaround with someone who knows less about Windows than I
do. So please, if there is someone reading this who knows of a back door and
can email the engineers directly, please pass my report along.

 

[Guest]

Looks like XP is "Dead as DOS" I had heard that MS gave up supporting their
OS's after five years back when I was an MVP. I was really hoping they would
show a longer attention span than that. XP is from 2001, that's 6 years.
I guess your $59 would be better spent buying Vista :/ Pressed on the issue,
MS would probably say the way they fixed that bug was to 'upgrade Windows'.
Really depressing.

 

[Guest]

All the news articles I've read say that XP SP3 has not been cancelled.
Are you telling me that you can't pass my bug report along? If not, do you
know someone who can? Or do you know of a surefire (and free) way that I can
send it myself? Your first suggestion did not take me very far. Vista is
not an option. Your suggestion to give up was not very helpful. At least I
want the satisfaction that the big behemoth is aware of the problem, even if
they don't fix it. Any company that has no avenue by which bug reports from
customers can get to the engineers is on its way to death.

 

[Guest]

I didn't say you should give up. I said I though MS had given up.
Microsofties do read and post in the Microsoft Communities. They even put
their title in their sig ( [MSFT] ).
I don't really expect any of them to gleefully join this thread :/ Microsoft
has 'moved on' to Vista. XP is 'dead as dos' (no more bug fixes being done).
This is what you asked, and I told you. If you don't think that was helpful,
fine, post a new thread. Maybe there is someone else who knows different.