If crashes maybe once a day, sometimes more. Nothing else crashes. It just freezes up. I’ve downloaded updates and everything.
The reason why IE continues to crash is because it’s a Microsoft based product, and let me tell you something about Apple Macintosh computers.
For instance, the Mac I’m currently using is now about 28 months old. It’s been all around the e-world on its Safari browser, all over the place. And, to this day, including easy updates and all, this Mac remains as fast and as reliable as it was when new, not perfect but wonderful.
So, if you have an opportunity, try a Mac. Once you do, moreover, the odds are that you will never, never, never look back.
BTW, the newer Intel-based Mac computers are also Microsoft compatible, and so both operating systems, all of their respective software, and each of their browsers, can function on the same Mac computer. Yes, a Mac computer indeed can do it all!
But, no matter what computer it operates on, Microsoft based software, and especially IE, will continue to be problematic, and that’s just the way it goes.
IMO, Mac and windows users have differing expectations of how their computers should behave. I stopped thinking about learning Mac when I got an iPod, because I’m constantly frustrated that things that I think ought to be configurable options aren’t. I can have it the way Steve Jobs thinks I should have it and use it the way Jobs thinks I should use it, or I can get lost. I doubt I’ll be buying another Apple product.
Mine - or rather the one I’m just about to replace - does the same from time to time, but never often enough to be annoying enough to hunt down. I suspect its something to do with a 512 meg stick of RAM I installed just before it began, but I’ve never got any farther.
But once a day is annoying. Have you downloaded a recent copy of the MS Malicious Software Recovery Tool and run a scan? That might be an idea, just in case your computer needs to be dewormed.
@ s1m0n,
I have no experience with iPod, as my musical memory is already flooded with tunes.
However, I’ll stand by what I said about Mac computers, that they really do work, very well.
The Mac Safari browser sometimes does freeze, but it can then be cleared in a matter of moments, and easily.
And, after that, it then goes right back to business, as if nothing bad had happened.
Yup, when it comes to the Internet, the Mac computer is just that good, honestly.
Try a different browser. Try ditching the anti-virus, and switching to a less active one. Many AV programs are worse than the mild threat of virus (as long as a person doesn’t go to high risk sites and/or leave their computer on all the time).
Vista is a dog that will soon be put down. Windows 7 is getting good reviews and will be out in October. Hopefully Win7 will be as stable or more stable than XP Pro.
The main reason Macs are safer is because of their ~2% world wide market share. If the world ran on Macs (especially the Chinese and Russian hackers), Macs would be the subject of major attacks as well.
Please, think again. For instance, and unlike Microsoft based computers, Mac computers, and the Safari browser, are Unix language based. Moreover, Unix happens to be developed by scientists, for scientists, and if anything could go wrong with Unix, then it likely already has been addressed, and fixed.
And, that’s why Mac computers are as reliable on the Internet as a mountain goat, steadfast.
Try one, and see for yourself.
BTW, the Internet itself is also Unix based. Small world, eh?
As Simon says, you can’t configure a MAC just the way you want it. It’s hidebound.
“It’s written in Unix.” That’s nice. Shame about the MAC side of it though.
There’s lots of good Unix/Linux versions out there: Free ones, like UBUNTU, and retail ones like Red Hat.
Check for Malware, as Bill Chin says, and try different browsers. You can get Firefox and Safari as free downloads. Ironic that your original browser has to work for you to get them, though… 
Mac fans sounded exactly the same long before BSD entered the picture.
IE must have a way you can adjust the configuration to enable or disable Java and plugins like flash and acrobat. Try shutting them all off, and if the crashing stops, turn them back on one at a time until you work out which is making trouble. Opera allows me to set these globally or individually by domain, but I don’t know much about ie, which I go a long way to avoid.
I second IB’s suggestion to download Firefox and/or Safari.
(Mac user, but I must be sufficiently familiar with PCs to keep the kid out of trouble in his cave. The cave of the PC. I think there may be a stalactite hanging over his head.)
Honestly, I don’t think you know what you are talking about. I know Unix. The Mac OS is more stable as is Linux. However, to think they are can not be hacked via Internet is a naive belief. The hackers focus on Windows, IE, Outlook because there are a bazillion pirated copies of Windows in China and Russia. These illegal copies can not be patched, can not be fixed, so it is open season for the hackers. If there were a similar percentage of Linux systems or Mac systems waiting to be willing zombie computers, they too would be hit hard, and naive folks like you would likely be making similar posts about why your computer has strange problems. Hackers can find the holes. You aren’t a target because Macs have 2% worldwide marketshare, almost all legal and patched copies, not because it is impossible to hit you.
Yeah, any Unix-based system is as secure
as the person with the root password. If
you install something with a trojan and
you supply your root password during
installation, then you are now vulnerable
to a rootkit attack. You still have to be
careful, Macs are not bulletproof.
Thanks.
I actually use Seamonkey (Mozilla based) for my main browsing but I use IE for a couple of sites that work better with IE. I’ll try your suggestions.
Thanks again.
Let me first say that I have no business interest in either Apple or Microsoft, and so I’m not here to “spam” anybody.
However, I simply can’t argue with proven success, that this Mac computer, now nearly two and a half years old, has been all around the e-world and yet continues to function, near flawlessly. Yes, once in a long while its browser does crash, but it then can be restored in a matter of moments, easily done, and it then goes right back to full function, on its merry way.
The proof, as the saying goes, is in the pudding.
Or, as Apple says, “It just works.”
The same can be said of my windows
laptop, which is as old as my MacMini.
I know a man who has been using Macs
for decades, and complains that he’s
only started having hardware troubles
with them since they moved to an Intel
chipset. All these are anecdotal evidence,
and not really useful compared to the
agregate… You really must learn some-
thing about the underlying system if you
want to really protect yourself.
ignorance is not bliss???
Honestly, sometimes you do come off as a Mac SPAMer. When someone asks a technical question, the answer is not “buy a new computer for $1000 or $2000 or $3000, you made the wrong choice.” I find your constant replies to these tech support threads to be rude, and unhelpful.
As to your story, I have a Dell notebook that I’ve had for five years. I haven’t had any problems. I use it every day, and put it through its paces. My Dell cost one-third what a Mac laptop would have cost, so I am already two computers ahead. I have the money for new computers throught 2020 vs. going the Mac route. As you say, the proof is in the pudding. My Dell just works. I expect my next two new computers to just work too.
I’m not sure I follow that. I’m a huge customiser
and I’ve not yet run into anything that couldn’t
be configured. You might have to use something
besides the supplied GUI, but the same is true of
Windows… Do you have an example of a non-
configurable feature?
EDIT: Or, were you talking about hardware
configuration of a system? That, I could see.
There’s lots of good Unix/Linux versions out there: Free ones, like UBUNTU, and retail ones like Red Hat.
I’m guessing you haven’t heard, but Red Hat has
stopped selling consumer versions of Linux. They
still make RedHat Linux for servers. The consumer
version is now free, and is called Fedora.
You can get Firefox and Safari as free downloads. Ironic that your original browser has to work for you to get them, though… >
Not true. You can use ftp to get Firefox. If you bring
up the command prompt and type “ftp ftp.mozilla.org”
You’ll get to mozilla’s ftp site. Login as anonymous
with no password, and then type:
cd pub/firefox/releases/3.0.11/win32/en-US/
bin
get "Firefox Setup 3.0.11.exe"
quit
Now you have the installer, and no browser needed.
