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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