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Comment on Frequent crashes in Windows 7 !! by Siew Kam Onn

Siew Kam Onn — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:47:14 +0000

It was a new laptop.
I called Dell and requested for a trade-up, and got a newer laptop.
But the crashes still came hard and fast.
So I called Microsoft and told them that the same issue was happening with a new laptop too.
Since then, they identified the issue to be a very old 32-bit freeware that I had – zshell.
I stopped using that software altogether and my last crash was 16 days ago.
Keeping my fingers crossed now…..

Comment on Frequent crashes in Windows 7 !! by Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:52:50 +0000

Frankly, that sounds like a hardware problem; I would run SMART diagnostics on your hard drive, and Memtest86 to verify that you don’t have a failing RAM DIMM. If it is neither of those, try a system file repair from the windows installation disk.

Far be it from me to polish Microsofts turds, But windows 7 is actually a very stable platform – it is likely your problem lies elsewhere. If those 8 years of XP and 6 months of Windows 7 occurred on the same hardware, it no surprise that your hardware would be wearing out. If you got a new machine with Win7 loaded on it when all your problems started, then I’d still guess bum hardware.

Comment on TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting by Atul

Atul — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:50:47 +0000

I came across another detailed example to explain the error conditions and a corrected code. http://fullchipdesign.com/pyerr3.htm

Comment on Running Scheduled Tasks from the command line by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:42:25 +0000

Thanks tons. This was really bugging me.

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win32k.sys blue screen of death on Windows 7 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:13:59 +0000

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Comment on Not happy with CompanionLink for Google by Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:39:56 +0000

Agree – a non working product and non-existent support. Error messages and double and triple calendar entries… Support did not respond in 3 days and product names and functionality seem to change like a baby’s diaper. Ridiculous.

Comment on Microsoft’s support disappoints !! My experience of fixing “Class not registered” for mscomct2.ocx control after Microsoft support staff abandoned the case by Julio Vásquez

Julio Vásquez — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:07:33 +0000

Poderoso, gracias por compartir este articulo. Tengo meses de buscar la solución a este comun problema, and I know ms support ups.
El Salvador.

Comment on PyWin64 ? by daf

daf — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:48:23 +0000

Uhm, no, this is no reason to stick with 32bit windows. Pywin32 seems to work just fine under win64 — and you don’t have to put up with the ridiculous non-reason for not being able to address more than about 3.2 gig of memory (it’s a licensing issue, not an OS capabilities issue — 32bit Linux has done 16 gig memory since the 2.4 days and there’s a hackity hack to get > 4 gig addressable (but only 2 gig per process) on win32… but I digress).

Trust me. Win7 64bit is what you want. Leave 32bit OSes where they belong: in the past.