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They list which apps crash most - stuff like Google Drive, Adobe Creative Suite, iTunes. The only common one listed is Explorer in Windows 8, which could be due
by jongalloway2 14y ago
They list which apps crash most - stuff like Google Drive, Adobe Creative Suite, iTunes. The only common one listed is Explorer in Windows 8, which could be due to a storage driver or something. So if you're not running the software they're listing, less likely that you'll see crashiness. I agree, I pretty much never see app crashes and haven't seen a BSOD since like Vista betas.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI've been happily using Windows 8 since the RTM months prior to the retail release and I mostly like it, but I've experienced a lot of Explorer crashes. These aren't a huge deal because the OS detects the crash and restarts another explorer automatically within seconds, but it is a bit annoying that it happens so often. I haven't really looked into the issue much because it isn't a showstopper but I suspect the problem has to do with thumbnail generation because I mostly see it when navigating folders full of video clips used for video editing. It is possible/probable that explorer itself isn't what is crashing but rather some dependent codec used for the thumbnailing is crashing, but it would be nice if explorer isolated itself better from such crashes.
- iso-8859-1 14y agoWindows Explorer is an userspace app, a driver would not force it to crash any more than it would force any other application using I/O to crash.