Does Vista Crash Some Apps?
It’s being reported over at BetaNews that IE7 Beta 1 is crashing various applications on testers’ machines.
Instant Messaging (IM), Yahoo mail and MS Money are mentioned as programs finding IE7 hard to live with. “Trillian, a popular multi-network IM client, Gaim and IM2 all spit out error messages when loaded alongside IE7, and the only fix is to uninstall Microsoft’s new browser.”
The problem seems to lie with a DLL file used by the multi-network clients to connect to MSN’s Messenger service. IE7 has a newer version of wininet.dll, which precipitates a crash if connected to AOL Instant Messenger while simultaneously connecting to MSN.
Gmail is reported as working normally.
No doubt it will all be solved in time for the launch.
Update: A Cerulean employee writing on a support forum said : “The developers are aware of the issue. There will most likely be no patch for it right now because IE7 is still in BETA testing. If a patch was issued, there is a chance that something else would change that would mess it up again.”
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Is there a PC Doctor in the house?
Aug 20, 2005 at 10:18 am
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