Notepad Munged... I can prove it

Just in case any of you folks thought I was kidding when I said that Notepad crashed out on me a few times....

How pathetic is it when NOTEPAD crashes (although, the best thing I ever saw was a Task Manager dialog that listed itself as not responding That was a classic!)

Hehe... that's still not as bad as the last Internet Explorer bug. It was found that you can crash any Microsoft application using the MSHTML renderer simply by leaving out the "=" in a form element, such as <input type text>. (try it -- tastes good ).

lol, I have had MS Access display the following error a few times when I have been running low on RAM

"Unable to load database window. Please upgrade your version of Internet Explorer."

WTH does IE have to do with it

Yeah. I've had Explorer.exe throw some problems my way (not IExplore.exe). That system had some sever problems. Only a hard-drive sacrifice fixed that one. Explorer.exe crashing tends to take down the whole os...

Yeah. I've had Explorer.exe throw some problems my way (not IExplore.exe). That system had some sever problems. Only a hard-drive sacrifice fixed that one. Explorer.exe crashing tends to take down the whole os...

Come on C - notepad is the cream of the crop on windows

I hope you don't think you're kidding

rycamor

That still doesn't beat the previous one on XP that could DELETE any Microsoft application! LOL

I may be exaggerting.... but not much...

I found the bug in Win95 funny where you could close the start button. Would actually cause it to disappear and there as no way of getting it back

The error comes fom the common dialog ocx. So either it's corrupt
or whatever. Is this just happening when you open or save a file?

My current MS horror story is there is a folder on my desktop that
has a trailing period in it's name (inn.) Since this is not recognized
as a proper file/folder name it cannot be deleted (or created but
who knew). So there it sits...It has for the last 6 months.

you forgot about paintbrush, they go hand in hand. and here i thought paint is your fave ms application.

Heh... inn. should have been changed to inn (no extension) when it was created. Wonder how that happened? It must be time to upgrade! And, actually, notepad didn't crash, I just couldn't save the file. I just copied the text and pasted it to a new document after restarting notepad. As for corruption... I've just come to accept that about 2/3 of Windoze files are corrupt the instant they hit the CD, so it's not worth worrying about anyway .

Don't forget Solitaire. After all, Windows is a very good platform for the gaming community you know.

lol, www.windowscrash.com

Heh, computer, that link is great.. some of those pictures are just hilarious.

However, it is a little bit misleading.. about 99% of those "crashes" aren't Windows crashes, but Windows App crashes. That is the result of poor application programming, that doesn't mean that the system itself isn't stable, it just means that when there are languages like Visual Basic out there -- every Joe out there thinks he is a software developer, which leads to ****ty code.

I still think Windows XP, itself as an operating system, is a good piece of code, and I haven't had any problems with it to date. I also use RedHat 9, and I think that is also a good piece of code.. they both have advantages and disadvantages.

i'm not dissagreeing with you, but still, good link.

anyway, some of those app crashes were microsoft software