Firefox is out for me.  I can’t say exactly what killed it, but it had a lot to do with my surfing habits.  I’d leave 10-20 tabs open as I went off to work, and when I came home, Firefox seems to have eaten everything it could resource-wise!  Chrome quickly filled the void as my new browser of choice, but the current lack of plugins (i.e. no Firebug) means I can’t migrate completely.  Or can I?

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Sometimes I run a program by accident and want to close it quickly.  In Vista if you try to close a program while it is working, Windows considers this a problem!   So naturally, it fires up a process to check online for a solution.

99% of the time there is no real problem, I’ve just attempted to exit an application while it was busy.  The solution checking is annoying…   here’s how to turn it off!

Turning off  Solution Checking

From the Control Panel (in Classic View), select “Problem Reports and Solutions“.

Under the tasks menu to the left, select ‘Change Settings‘.

Click ‘Advanced Settings‘

Set the ‘For my programs, problem reporting is: ‘  setting to ‘Off’.

Viola!  No more annoying checking for solutions to non existant problems.