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definitely something with Windows Media Center. It causes everything to freeze. If I leave it windowed I can use ctrl-alt-dlt to close it but there is something causing it Windows Media Center to crash.

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Originally Posted by KingZee (Post 1456390)

I have both and use both very heavily. Macs do crash but are more "predictable" I would say. If you're doing heavy work/graphic processing...they do have tendency to freeze or lag but it's always because of some type of "overload" I feel like. Windows uses resources more "freely" but that opens up the door for random unpredictable crashes. If you use a Mac and just have a browser open most of the time and one or two simple apps, and tend to restart ever few days you'll have a much more pleasant experience as a novice user.

To the OP, your issue does sound like a hardware issue. Graphics card is what I thought initially as well. The software updates or even a format could fix things though.

I have and use both also. For the "average" user, the Mac is far simpler and more reliable and I def recommend it to most people. I'm just say'n it's far from flawless. I use Photoshop, Aperture on the Mac and can tell you it still crashes every now and then. Not that it crashes all the time or anything, just that its about the same with a PC running Windows 7. I'm not hear to stir up a Mac vs PC debate, I could care less about either one. I'll be keeping the PC because upgrading is far easier, has more upgrade options and far less expensive. I also need it for AutoCad and 3D Studio Max...and Yes I know its available on the Mac or via bootcamp. The ocassional gaming is better with the PC hands down. If money was no object, I wouldn't mind a maxed out MacPro, but alas I don't have that luxury. I think it's also fair to say you pay a premium for the Apple logo ...and this is from a guy with an iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro & an iPod.

As far as that whole virus, spyware crap. You just gotta stop looking at pornz :icon17:

So i finally managed to dig up the hang Windows Media center is throwing, can anyone decipher this?
Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: ehshell.exe
Application Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Application Timestamp: 4a5bd053
Hang Signature: 4a4e
Hang Type: 6400
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 4a4eb6d04dd76ac94ab55616d642b806
Additional Hang Signature 2: 7c4e
Additional Hang Signature 3: 7c4e1ba47c35aa1ebb32c637675596b8
Additional Hang Signature 4: 4a4e
Additional Hang Signature 5: 4a4eb6d04dd76ac94ab55616d642b806
Additional Hang Signature 6: 7c4e
Additional Hang Signature 7: 7c4e1ba47c35aa1ebb32c637675596b8

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Originally Posted by Cmike2780 (Post 1457256)

I have and use both also. For the "average" user, the Mac is far simpler and more reliable and I def recommend it to most people. I'm just say'n it's far from flawless. I use Photoshop, Aperture on the Mac and can tell you it still crashes every now and then. Not that it crashes all the time or anything, just that its about the same with a PC running Windows 7. I'm not hear to stir up a Mac vs PC debate, I could care less about either one. I'll be keeping the PC because upgrading is far easier, has more upgrade options and far less expensive. I also need it for AutoCad and 3D Studio Max...and Yes I know its available on the Mac or via bootcamp. The ocassional gaming is better with the PC hands down. If money was no object, I wouldn't mind a maxed out MacPro, but alas I don't have that luxury. I think it's also fair to say you pay a premium for the Apple logo ...and this is from a guy with an iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro & an iPod.

As far as that whole virus, spyware crap. You just gotta stop looking at pornz :icon17:

LOL bro, I deal with PS and Aperture fcking with me all day and I have 6GB of ram. Exactly what I was talking about as far as "overload" issues with Macs, if you're processing huge RAW image files with Aperture and you have PS open it eats up RAM like Godzilla eats people.

Yeah, I searched it and found a few solutions. I tried the first one I found and so far so good.

I know what you guys mean with the Mac gobbling up RAM. When I work on editing my videos it slows down to a crawl (and I'm just using iMovie). I would hate to see it if I tried using an even more advanced video editor.

Skeeter- If you received a BSOD, you can take a look at the minidump file that it generates. Here is a nifty little tool that will let you open up that dump file and view it's contents: Blue screen of death (STOP error) information in dump files.

I THINK the dump files are located at c:\windows\minidump
but you could always search for "minidump"

Well, it's been a few days since I last said anything. After installing all the updates from microsoft and updating the drivers for everything it has been running nice and stable for the last 48 hours nonstop. I'll look into that minidump thing as well