vista + HP = fail

[Irish_Tom]

Probably Hardware then. The system is getting on a bit (hence the update).

Panzer

 

[Energize]

Why didn't microsoft just use emulation where drivers are concerned? It's pretty poor that vista wasn't made so xp drivers work on it.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Why didn't microsoft just use emulation where drivers are concerned? It's pretty poor that vista wasn't made so xp drivers work on it.

It's hard to emulate drivers because of their low level nature, that's just a fact of life. Why OEMs didn't get development of Vista drivers done ealier is a mystery to me.

Burnsy

 

[this_is_gav]

I've got nothing dodgy installed (except XP ) and I run TuneUp, Ccleaner, Ad-aware, Nod32 and Diskeeper regularly.

Well I run none of those, other than NOD32, and I've not seen an XP crash in... lord knows how long. Either at work or at home. Remarkable. 80 PCs and no crashes vs 1 PC and frequent crashes. It's not hard to spot the weakest link in this chain.