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		apotheon on Aug 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7 Where the heck would you look for troubleshooting a Vista machine if not the OS? Are you saying it's probably a hardware problem, or are you one of these people that thinks when an application takes down the whole system it's not a sign there's anything wrong with the OS?

thras on Aug 16, 2009 [–]

I'd look at Hardware -> Drivers -> Anti-Virus -> Malware.

In that order. Then I'd start poking around for OS issues.

apotheon on Aug 17, 2009 | [–]

Other than hardware, none of those problem sources is any excuse for the whole system to crash -- but people still behave like they are on MS Windows.

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