Windows own programs "Not Responding"

[Buddha]

Everytime someone posts a difficulty in this group, some Vista appologist
writes it off as operator error or incompatability. Even if I were naive
enough to accept this, what about Windows own features that are unreliable
as hell. At least once a day, I am informed that Windows Explorer, Media
Center, Windows Mail, or something else that came part and parcel with Vista
is either "Not Responding" or "Needs to close".

If MS cannot even make their own product compatible with itself, what hope
does anyone else have? Can any of you Vista fans accept even the remote
possibility that Vista is the culprit?

Buddha

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Everytime someone posts a difficulty in this group, some Vista appologist
writes it off as operator error or incompatability. Even if I were naive
enough to accept this, what about Windows own features that are unreliable
as hell.

Sorry guy, but the reality of it is that they aren't "unreliable as
hell" for the vast majority of users.

At least once a day, I am informed that Windows Explorer, Media
Center, Windows Mail, or something else that came part and parcel with Vista
is either "Not Responding" or "Needs to close".

Did this happen the day you brought the computer home??? No.

If MS cannot even make their own product compatible with itself, what hope
does anyone else have? Can any of you Vista fans accept even the remote
possibility that Vista is the culprit?

I can't.

 

[Not Even Me]

Everytime someone posts a difficulty in this group, some Vista appologist
writes it off as operator error or incompatability. Even if I were naive
enough to accept this, what about Windows own features that are unreliable
as hell. At least once a day, I am informed that Windows Explorer, Media
Center, Windows Mail, or something else that came part and parcel with
Vista is either "Not Responding" or "Needs to close".

If MS cannot even make their own product compatible with itself, what hope
does anyone else have? Can any of you Vista fans accept even the remote
possibility that Vista is the culprit?

Buddha

Sometimes it is a PICNIC, sometimes it's not.
Usually when you get errors like that it is a bad driver or third party
software interfering with 'normal' functions.
But it seems to happen more with Vista that I like.

(Problem In Chair, Not In Computer)

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

At least once a day, I am informed that Windows Explorer, Media Center,
Windows Mail, or something else that came part and parcel with Vista is
either "Not Responding" or "Needs to close".

What are the applicable fault bucket numbers for those crashes:
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
?

If MS cannot even make their own product compatible with itself, what hope
does anyone else have?

If. It remains to be seen whether your problems are on the MS side or some
other side. Let's not rush to judgement either way: that seems boring and
non-productive. It seems much more exciting to identify and solve problems
regardless of who created it.

Generally there's a pretty good sustained engineering team that releases
"Service Packs" and "QFEs" to fix up problems on the Microsoft side. If
there is some substantial issue you're facing, it seems like the appropriate
thing to do would be to take it to actual product support.

-Zach

 

[Telstar]

This is an utterly meaningless post.