Wikipedia causes my, otherwise fail-safe, XP laptop to go to a blue eyeshade of death. It can occur quite uncommonly when browsing articles (strangely not as a result of clicking a link or doing anything - it did it once after I have been reading a long article for almost quarter an hour and moved my mouse an inch). It does it a lot more regularly when I try to edit articles.
I am vastly computer savvy, and I know that it is definately Wikipedia causing the problem. I don't know what it is doing to the laptop to crash it however; the BSoD refers to some atypical .sys file which I can't remember bad the top of my head. It isn't a firewall or anti-virus to be precise clashing, I have tried beside and without both, and the problem still exists.
Does anyone else enjoy this problem or a hypothesis as to why I have this problem?
Answers: I've never have anything like this arise to me on Wikipedia.
Maybe just an issue beside internet explorer, this would be my thinking.
I assume your using IE, so try it with firefox or Opera and see if you carry the same issue
ive get the right answer! IE sux, get a material browser like firefox. because to be honest beside you IE used to crash my computer too. even on my Server2008 machine it crashed soo much that i uninstalled it and very soon rely on firefox totally.
Believe me, wikipedia isnt crashing your computer, microsoft is.
ps - you can get a free repossession disc for windows here :
http://fedoraproject.org/
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