johnsandywhite

Yep. It might help if we knew what make the Laptop is? The Toshiba has an upgraded chip in an older Laptop that doesn crash quite often due to the Processor Chip overheating.

In fact. If you think about it? How do most Laptops run without overheating? Most Desktops have an Heat sink on the Processor chip.

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superk

It's a Sony Vaio PCG-FX502 1Ghz - but taking the links Jim gave looks as though Microsoft have screwed up on this one AMD processors (and I think mine is) seem to be particularly affected.
Watchword appears to be don't download SP3.
But if anyone has found a solution still like to hear about it and get an explanation in ABC fashion being a computer numpty.

Keith

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johnsandywhite

In that case re-set the computer to a previous GOOD running order:-

Start
All Programs
Accessories
System Tools
System Restore

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Buy a Mac would make more sense You wait till you buy a Laptop with Vista on it

Kevit

I think Vista is much maligned. I have had a Sony Vaio running Vista on almost 24 hours a day for 7 months, and have had literally zero probs with crashes or lockups. I play online games, edit video, watch blu-ray dvd's all without a hitch. Go figure...

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Wildman

some of the recent updates have screwed my java script, I reinstalled it and downloaded the latest flash player but still can't see utube movies. Still tells me no java script, it loads for chatrooms etc so why not Utube. A decent operating system shouldn't need a million updates a year ballsing it up every five mins.

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paulejw

Try taking out or deactivating one at a time your browser ADD INS

Usually they are the cause of most browser problems

I hope this helps.

American Dream

Good advice and that's exactly what I'd try first.

NOT 100% but worth a try as a diagnostic.

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