Monday, February 18, 2008

How to prevent Windows Vista's green ribbon of death

Don't you just love it when something is so notorious for a particular shortcoming that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Windows Blue Screen of Death. It happened with the Spinning Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.

Now it has happened with Vista's own Green Ribbon of Death, shown below.

The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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