Another Day With My PC

Application crashes are facts of life that happen almost everyday whenever you’re spending a great deal of time in front of the computer. Fortunately, most of these program malfunctions can be remedied by just closing it down and running it anew. It’s quite annoying though, especially if the application that crashes is a word processor and you weren’t able to save what you’re doing. Argh!

Some crashes are even nastier. Not only does it require you to run the program all over again, but it sometimes calls for the complete shut down and rebooting of the whole system. This was the dilemma that many PC users encountered during the days of Windows 95 and 98. Microsoft incorporated a mild solution to the problem by giving the user an option to report the crash to them.

I’m quite shameful to admit that I haven’t tried clicking the “report” button whenever I’m prompted after a crash to send a report about the incident to the OS maker. It’s not that it would entail extra time to fill out some electronic forms for the report. In fact, you don’t need to do anything other than click the button. The reason why I haven’t tried clicking that button yet is because I’m quite skeptical if Microsoft would really work on the problem. Many consumers have already sent complaints to Bill Gate’s company about various problems, but only a few of them were entertained and resolved.

I guess my skepticism is misplaced. Who knows, application crashes might be on top of the OS maker’s “to-do” list. Give it a try. You might just get a solution to that frequent software malfunction that you’re having. But don’t just sit and wait for Microsoft to solve your problem for you. Try to find other solutions. System crashes are also frequently caused by problems in the registry. Run a registry cleaner and see if it fixes your problem. Based from experience, it usually does.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 at 8:51 am and is filed under Personal Computers, PC Problems, Registry Problems, Registry Cleaners . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.