Windows Vista, as we’re all aware, is to blame for many of the world’s ills. Or at least mine when I have people turning up with their own laptops and asking me to configure them.
However, I didn’t realise exactly how pervasive its evilness truly was until yesterday. I was stripping out some old Java installations on an office PC using the remarkably handy JavaRa utility. Little plug for this – it’s a teeny self-executeable that can save you a ton of hard drive space by removing old versions of Java automatically. By design, Java leaves these in place in case some programs need them, but generally they’re a waste of space. I got around half a gig of HD space back by running this little beastie.
Anyway, it decided to crash and I got the usual option of reporting this to Microsoft. I did, not expecting much, but actually got one of those little “Click here for more information on this problem” links. Unusual when it’s a small freeware utility that’s fallen over. Intrigued, I clicked through to the MS support pages.
Where I was told that “This problem was caused by Windows Vista“. Not JavaRa after all.
A surprise, in honesty. Seeing as the machine I was working on was running Windows XP. Screenshot follows for those who doubt me!
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Mosh,
arrggh, i just got that Error message saying I needed to enter name, email, etc. But it didn’t include any “back” link so now I have to type the whole comment again!
Anyhow, you dag, “embiggen”?!! hahaaa 🙂 me likey!
And yes, doesn’t everyone love blaming Vista for everything? I know I do. Anything that happens on my laptop, it’s Vista’s fault! For everything else, there’s… no, not mastercard, but Melbourne’s weather!
Ah, but do you know what to blame Vista on? Bloody Apple. ********.