"Tom from WI" <not_real@noname-isp.us> wrote in message
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> "Allen" <allent@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> Tom from WI wrote:
>>> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks
>>> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is
>>> a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home
>>> Premium.
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>>> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.
>>>
>>> Any solutions?
>>>
>>> Tom
>> Have you tried re-downloading GE?
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> Yes. I re-installed it, didn't help. Works great without the Street View,
> which has the advantage that all of those annoying cameras don't clutter
> things up.
> Tom
By far the most likely reason is that your drivers are out of date. Even if
the PC is new, the drivers might need updating. My PC was bought from a
specialist PC builder for quite a high price and one set of drivers was
dated March 2008. Incidentally, updating drivers has suddenly turned into
a big bother.
Also my old XP machine (3.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB memory) struggled with
Google Earth on street view so if you have an oldish PC and click things a
lot expecting too much you will get it in a twist.