Re: OT - GoogleEarth, techie advice sought

Your email address ought to unique, try that . . .

The reason why GE crashes is probably to do with the fact that it is very resource hungry, disk space, memory, processor cycles, system resources etc.

Just close everything else down before you run GE

Mike McMillan wrote:
In message <43b553af$0$1448$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Marjorie Clarke <dontusethisaddess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

GoogleEarth was highly recommended to me, so I decided to download it
yesterday. When it tried to install itself, the computer crashed and
rebooted, complaining that it was recovering from a "serious error". I had
one more go at the installation and it happened again, so I've now
uninstalled the whole thing. The computer briefly sulked and pretended not
to recognise my password but eventually relented and is now apparently back
to normal.

Is that fault likely to be with my computer (about 3 yrs old, Win XP,
broadband), Google Earth itself, me, or some mysterious chemistry between
any combination of these? Or something less obvious (Bill Gates, George
Bush,  global warming, cold weather, Tony Blair, bird flu, the media...)?

Any advice on whether I should attempt to download it again or just forget
the whole thing?


I decided to download and install this ...

The system requires a login, so I followed the link to register, I tried nine or ten login names but none were acceptable even things like 'bollockstoyou' were already used! I haven't been able to join ... silly or sensible login word(s)!!!

Toodle Peeved,

Mike 
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