Notepad

piersk

WOW!!! One of the guys I work with managed to crash notepad. All it had was about 8 lines in and each line had about 4 words.

Just shows that even the simplest of programs can fail.

lanjoky

Wow!! never seen that done before ... 🙂

Elizabeth

How'd he manage that one piers? Or were the words really really really really long words? 🙂

-Elizabeth

piersk

I don't know. He doesn't know.

No the text wasn't very long at all. It's happened to him a couple of times in the last hour.

Oh well, he goes on holiday tonight, and when he comes back, he'll have a nice new copy of WinXP (currently 98) so that should keep him happy.

Bunkermaster

notepad had famous Dr Watson kinda features in 98... used to crash it quite often myself (involves DLL versions and some other stuff not directly related to notepad though)

The_Chancer

Hey - I managed to crash windows the other day....

Oh yeah - happens every day... D'oh...

piersk

Oh, crashing windows is nothing. I do that all the time. This guy managed to crash notepad!

The_Chancer

Yeah I know... was just making a sleight on all M$ products in general....

jllydgnt

Windoze '98 is about the worst excuse for an OS I have ever used. 2000 Pro is actually pretty decent. Does anyone know who it was that said something like, "The only way Microsoft will make something that doesn't suck is if they start making vacuum cleaners."

stolzyboy

"I say I say I say, the day that Microsoft make something that doesn't suck is the day that they start making vacuum cleaners"

Rods Tiger, Nov 03 2001

Weedpacket

If the first character in a "text" file is a backspace, that can cause grief...

Then again, IE can apparently be crashed by serving up

<html><head></head><input type></html>

planetsim

NotePad??

I thought the almighty "NOTEPAD" was indestructable.. Oh well..

Mordecai

Notepad crashes all the time for me, claims I have unicode in it when I don't, and usually closes without saving the "unicode" document.

Originally posted by The Chancer
Hey - I managed to crash windows the other day....

You'd have a hard time crashing my computer. I'ts a P4 1.6GHz with 1 gig of RAM. I've used 100% RAM and 100% CPU multiple times and it'll still run fine (obviously not during...).

piersk

Do you use windows?

Mordecai

Originally posted by piersk
Do you use windows?

Of course. Windows XP, build 2600.

The_Chancer

AHh - I would find a way....

Managed to destroy this Win2K installation at work... don't know how, wouldn't boot windoze completely - continual diskcheck and restart... LOL

Good job I don't have a job in the IT dept..

dalecosp

What kid in the neighborhood hasn't broken a few Windows & reg ; heh

jayant

Originally posted by The Chancer
Hey - I managed to crash windows the other day....

big deal? pretty easy, even on WinXP