Some pgms have quit working

[Frank]

I'm on XP sp3. Lately, I have had several pgm, including Word, stop
working. When I try to start them, I get a msg "Program xxx has encounered a
problem and needs to close" or "the operating system is not configured to
run this pgm.". Any ideas what is causing this???
Frank

 

[BillW50]

In news:4c7c30e5$0$14854$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com,
Frank typed on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:295 -0400:
> I'm on XP sp3. Lately, I have had several pgm, including Word, stop
> working. When I try to start them, I get a msg "Program xxx has
> encounered a problem and needs to close" or "the operating system is
> not configured to run this pgm.". Any ideas what is causing this???
> Frank

I personally tested two of seven Windows XP machines and stopped
receiving updates. I did this for a year and no viruses, no program
crashes or anything. So I am in the process of reinstalling Windows XP
SP2 on all of my machines and don't allow any updates. If you need a hot
fix or something to fix a bug, then that is okay. So far I only needed
KB909095 and that is all. There is an old saying don't fix something
that ain't broken and it is so true.

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2

 

[Bill in Co]

BillW50 wrote:
> In news:4c7c30e5$0$14854$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com,
> Frank typed on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:295 -0400:
>> I'm on XP sp3. Lately, I have had several pgm, including Word, stop
>> working. When I try to start them, I get a msg "Program xxx has
>> encounered a problem and needs to close" or "the operating system is
>> not configured to run this pgm.". Any ideas what is causing this???
>> Frank
>
> I personally tested two of seven Windows XP machines and stopped
> receiving updates. I did this for a year and no viruses, no program
> crashes or anything. So I am in the process of reinstalling Windows XP
> SP2 on all of my machines and don't allow any updates. If you need a hot
> fix or something to fix a bug, then that is okay. So far I only needed
> KB909095 and that is all. There is an old saying don't fix something
> that ain't broken and it is so true.

Agree with you on that! I don't (and won't) ever allow those automatic
updates, as I've been burned once or twice before. "Fool me once, shame
on you, fool me twice, shame on me" comes to mind.

I did eventually go to WinXP SP3, because of some weird (and sporadic)
svchost bugs that I couldn't ever resolve and successfully debug, and that
fortunately fixed that issue (otherwise I would have stayed with SP2).