How to Crash Vista on a dual-core Processor.

Now, granted, there are plenty of ways to crash this......... fine, fine OS, but I managed to make it freeze, and actually recovered!

What was I doing? Firefox w/ 3 tabs, Windows Media Player, Defragmenting my Hard Drive and creating a 7-Zip archive from a USB Device (my old HDD Walkman, which I now use for removable storage).

Vista coped with that all fine. What went wrong was when I, in quick succession, opened a bookmark in Firefox, started another archiving process, also from the Walkman. Oh yeah, and I lost my net connection just as Firefox connected to the site it was opening.

See, what I forgot was that, even with both archiving processes in "background" mode, they were still using 700,000K Memory, or thereabouts. Put it this way: Firefox is using more than it should right now, and it is at 116,264K.

Even on a 2GB RAM laptop, Vista eats enough of that idling that you can't do this.


I need to get Ubuntu onto my machine...

- Mehall (visit my site?)