The ones that happen to me daily at work on my POS IBM StinkPad T42 running WinXP.

Put W2000 on it and the crashes will end. I head out on the road with my Dell laptop and W2000. Do not reboot it usually for months and never an issue. Oh yea, using Firefox and not IE.

designing a site with IE-specfic code is done at your own peril. I would never do it for a public site. For an intranet, have at it...but don't complain when you get fleas...

I could see it as being useful if you were doing something processing-intensive in IE, you could grab more system resources or run processes concurrently with separate windows that don't share memory.

That being said, I can't think of a single application for this on a PC.

Not permitted, W2k is "end-of-lifed" at my company and I'd be fired for having an out-of-date and "insecure" OS installed on my computer.

Seriously.

:rolleyes: Meanwhile, I just rebooted because this thing froze solid. Again.

I have XP on my Toshiba laptop and don't recall a single crash in two years.

Operator error?:D

I appreciate it, Wayne. Although I've known about Ctrl-N for some time, but did not realize there was a memory benefit. Thanks.

I will NOT upgrade to IE7 due to some known conflicts with other apps I run, and due to the security issues. (And due to Microsoft's poor track record with releases of buggy software)

I have considered Firefox, but some of my business interactives require IE. I just prefer not to mess around with a new, seperate browser just to make PPOT faster.

Um, no.

Come on now:D

I don't think I've ever had Windoze crash on me (been using it since W95...it's just an OS :)), but have never seen an operating system (and I've used MANY) that couldn't be crippled by end users doing something brilliant :) YMMV....

Last Friday it crashed while I was emailing.

Today it crashed while my viruscan files were updating in the background. Something I have no control over, our IT dept forces the updates.

I'm just messin' with ya. :)

You are probably the only guy i've ever run accross that can say that.

+1 - IE7 Sucks. So does Vista...stay away from Vista!!!!!!!

There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere...you know, along the lines of "you have the whitest teeth I've ever come across."

I dislike the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox. So I just cram as much memory in my computers as I can and use IE.

I run XP and IE 6.0
No problems here.

Netscape 6.0 seems to do well. i use that for e-mail.

Thanks for the tip, Wayne.


KT