XP PROBLEMS

[johnny]

About 5 or 6 times a day, my pc just stops running
whatever program I'm using with no warning, it just
disapears like I clicked the red X @ tha top. It mostly
does it on hotmail.com but it also does it on other
programs such as word, games, front page, and many
others. I see no relation with these programs as far as
software simularities or design flaws. I've done the best
I can looking for viruses, going as far as Norton
Professional 2003, also housecall.com and running their
online scan. I constantly run win doctor and there's no
problems. Now, I'm a pc tech and I can't figure this one
out by my syself. I also use window washer, and system
mechanic as utilities. Please Help!

 

[Steve]

What about drivers? Have you checked them? If they seem ok, what if, you
uninstalled them one by one and re-installed them one by one.

Just a guess.

 

[davexnet]

What about drivers? Have you checked them? If they seem ok, what if, you
uninstalled them one by one and re-installed them one by one.

Just a guess.

This has happened to me also. A progamming is running one
second and then it's completely gone, just as if the red X
had been pressed.

This has happened to me with the mpeg encoder tmpgenc and
also with the usenet newreader BNR2.

There is no error message, nothing in the event log.
I would have expected some indication of an error *somwehere*,
but was not able to find anything.

I'm running xp on a Fat32 partition - seems to be an XP issue,
since it affects a variety of apps. I thought perhaps it was
hardware related, but even if it was, wouldn't the program
crash, rather than just disappear?
Dave

 

[Steve]

Nothing to do with hardware. If you're using TMPGenc and it does it, then
that points to the video driver. MSs Movie Maker 2 does that on my machine.
Try a different driver.