03-04-2008, 05:49 PM | #21 |
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What was the issue with opening Open Office? Out of memory?
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03-04-2008, 06:28 PM | #22 |
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No, there was just about nothing running. It's the symptom where my 'puter absolutely will not open anything, and the only fix is a good reboot.
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03-04-2008, 11:37 PM | #23 |
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It just might be IE. Maybe some security gizmo that's getting lost in the crowd when it tries to open Open Office, which probably has its own security gizmoes.
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03-05-2008, 01:57 AM | #24 |
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Excuse my ignorance, but what type of app is Open Office? Is it a relation of MS Office?
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03-05-2008, 04:44 AM | #25 |
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Open Office is an Open Source equivalent of MS Office, meaning it's free!
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03-05-2008, 05:06 PM | #26 |
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It's possible that someone at Microsoft would program their stuff so it doesn't play nice with competing software, but I'm not really paranoid enough to believe that they would do that these days.
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03-07-2008, 01:32 AM | #27 |
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Why would they have to? Windows has enough badly written code to do it without deliberately trying.
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03-07-2008, 02:37 AM | #28 |
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Yeah, I checked my task list and there were two instances of iexplore.exe eating up about 200 MEG. Like exit already, will ya?
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03-07-2008, 05:17 PM | #29 |
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Could you use the Task Manager to blow them away?
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03-07-2008, 05:27 PM | #30 |
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Yep. Silly question... do you play games at http://www.popcap.com ? I'm thinking that I started playing their games the day this started.
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03-07-2008, 11:14 PM | #31 |
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Not me - never heard of it before - now I certainly don't want to go there.
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03-08-2008, 12:08 AM | #32 |
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I'm with Hokieman!
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03-08-2008, 01:47 AM | #33 |
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Actually, their games are very fun, both the downloadable and the online, and I've never had problems before this.
However, I have noticed that the games will "hang" at times, so I have to navigate to another site. I'm wondering if that's not part of the memory gobbling invisible iexplore.exe processes... |
03-11-2008, 12:32 PM | #34 |
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Well, it's not the PopCap site. I've had game hangs where IE exits correctly, and times where IE leaves crap in the Task Manager where I haven't played any of their games...
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05-08-2008, 07:23 PM | #35 |
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I was kinda the same way about Outlook (and Outlook Express). To me, OE and Outlook both are way too busy trying to help you manage your entire day, and that gets in my way. Different folks have different needs, though.
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