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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon
I am no expert by any means, however, I must say that I don't think a computer would hang for just no reason. Usually it is a power supply problem, loose connection etc., or it simply may not be powerful enough to do what you want it to do.
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I did say "no good reason" not no reason
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I don't blame the OS for loose connections etc., although having to reboot because a USB driver gets confused by a loose USB cable generating repeated plug/unplug events is a drag.
I find the real problem is that buggy software (and all software is buggy, including linux software) on windows often causes the whole system to become unreliable, requiring a reboot, rather than just the buggy application itself crashing. Then you could simply restart the application.
I have noticed, like you, that Windows 7 64-bit is an improvement. Apart from being able to use more RAM, it seems to be better at managing to contain misbehaving programs. Unfortunately my Windows 7 machine is less powerful (CPU, HDD and screen size) than the XP system.
-Ivan