vista not recovering crashes

I've noticed that Vista doesn't recovers from crashes as XP does. I've read that Vista should recover better and has some features that makes it more reliable but doesn't seems to be this way.
I know is still a beta and I don't worry when something crashes. But I've had to push my case reset button more times that I expected. When an application gets hanged the full system halts and I can't presh Ctrl-Alt-Del to open tast manager and close the application not responding. The only option is to do a hard reset.
Regards, Angel.

Angel,
You need to be more specific. What programs are you using and computer specs. I have had no problems other than Movie Maker not responding, then closing down. I initially had constant lockups with Computer Associates antivirus. When I dumped it all of my problems disappeared.
Regards Jonty
"Angel Massa" wrote:

I've noticed that Vista doesn't recovers from crashes as XP does. I've read that Vista should recover better and has some features that makes it more reliable but doesn't seems to be this way.
I know is still a beta and I don't worry when something crashes. But I've had to push my case reset button more times that I expected. When an application gets hanged the full system halts and I can't presh Ctrl-Alt-Del to open tast manager and close the application not responding. The only option is to do a hard reset.
Regards, Angel.

I have locked up 3 times in IE. No certain pages. I had to reset also. No Taskman. -- Sam
"Jonty" wrote:

Angel,
You need to be more specific. What programs are you using and computer specs. I have had no problems other than Movie Maker not responding, then closing down. I initially had constant lockups with Computer Associates antivirus. When I dumped it all of my problems disappeared.
Regards Jonty
"Angel Massa" wrote:
I've noticed that Vista doesn't recovers from crashes as XP does. I've read that Vista should recover better and has some features that makes it more reliable but doesn't seems to be this way.
I know is still a beta and I don't worry when something crashes. But I've had to push my case reset button more times that I expected. When an application gets hanged the full system halts and I can't presh Ctrl-Alt-Del to open tast manager and close the application not responding. The only option is to do a hard reset.
Regards, Angel.

I've not been specific becouse I was not asking for any solution. It was just a comment.
On XP when an application crashes (rarelly as it's very stable for me) it just closes and the system keeps running flawlessly. On Vista everytime a program is not reponding (often, I suppose it's normal in a beta) the whole system gets hanged and I have to do a hard reset to recover loosing all the data on other open applications.
Regards, Angel.

You need to be more specific. What programs are you using and computer specs. I have had no problems other than Movie Maker not responding, then closing down. I initially had constant lockups with Computer Associates antivirus. When I dumped it all of my problems disappeared.
Regards Jonty

I've noticed that Vista doesn't recover from crashes as expected. In XP when an application crashes it closes or I can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to open task manager and close the not responding application.
On Vista when an application stops responding the hole systems halts and don't responds. I've had to pres the case reset button many times.
Regards, Angel.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have had the new Crash recovery/helpfull suggestion bit jump in a couple of times...but I just had a hard crash in Oblivion and the ctrl-alt-del took me to the Aurora page that offers task manager/log off/switch user/etc. I was actually surprised it did not give me the option to Shut Down or Restart. When I went into Task Manager it showed that Oblivion was not responding...but neither was Task Manager.
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I've noticed that Vista doesn't recover from crashes as expected. In XP when an application crashes it closes or I can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to open task manager and close the not responding application.
On Vista when an application stops responding the hole systems halts and don't responds. I've had to pres the case reset button many times.
Regards, Angel.

I thought that Vista manages crashes better than XP. But not by now...

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I have had the new Crash recovery/helpfull suggestion bit jump in a couple of times...but I just had a hard crash in Oblivion and the ctrl-alt-del took me to the Aurora page that offers task manager/log off/switch user/etc. I was actually surprised it did not give me the option to Shut Down or Restart. When I went into Task Manager it showed that Oblivion was not responding...but neither was Task Manager.