Re: Running Vista? Try this


"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <NGXgi.36106$Um6.20352@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"John Slade" <hhitman86@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <frWdnXk725p5oBnbnZ2dnUVZ_gCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is just a little something for the Windows users to try.

Something I heard about via email:

"I don't have an install to try out, but apparently this works on
Windows Vista:

1. Hold down the Windows key and the E key at the same time for
about
10 seconds.
2. Vista crashes.

Feel free to try it if you have a copy. Let us know if it actually
works."

No, Vista does not crash. By holding both keys at the same time you
repeatedly open new explorer Windows. How many I don't know. Quite a
few.
I
held it down for over 30 seconds and Explorer eventually crashed (but
automatically restarted). Vista remained operational and I am typing
this
after having performed the test.

Funny.

One person I trust and Information Week both agree it crashes Vista and
you disagree.

<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/06/how_to_crash_w
i.html>

Who to believe?


You're loony. It doesn't crash Vista it runs out of memory after
opening many many IE windows. I bet the same thing would happen to OS X
or
any other OS if you use up all the memory. Even so it will make it where
it
won't respond for a while. You'll have to close some of those windows.
Alan,
you must have a pathetic life. Sitting around all day long trying to find
flaws in Vista and lambasting MS and Windows.

LOL

I just happened across this, John.

I'm not the one regularly posting into a newsgroup about a computer I
don't use to slam it...

Yea we know, you never say anything bad about Windows or the PC.

John


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