Visual C++ 2005 crashes..
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:42 pm
Hello,
I downloaded Visual C++ Express 2005 about a week ago, I have not really used it as I don't think I know enough about C yet or about C++, but the thing is I twice just started up the program, today and yesterday, I don't think the program can have been doing much, but after about half a minute it completely crashed Windows!
There was no error warning or anything like it before the crash, not even the infamous blue DOS screen as of course there is no DOS anymore in Windows XP, but the screen goes black and there is a complete system reset...
After starting up I get a message that Windows recovered from a serious fault but there is not much to go on in the technical information, that just says there is a mini Dump collected that you can send to the Microsoft folks. I have not done that yet.
All I can think of that maybe it has something to do with the start-up screen, that goes to the Microsoft site to a webpage displaying new Visual Studio products. Nothing else should be happening, unless the compiler tries to open the small demonstration project that I compiled with it and this crashes the system, but I can't believe it does that without even first being told to go to the Projects Directory. I had not much else running at the time, Internet Explorer 7, the Shredder GUI and antivirus software were the main processes in the background, but these have never caused any problems. I actually have never heard of such a complete crash of Windows XP (Running Win XP Pro 32 bit, Service Pack 2 and latest updates).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening or maybe have experienced something like this? Should I do a reinstall of Visual C++ before trying to run the compiler? Ideas appreciated!
Eelco.
I downloaded Visual C++ Express 2005 about a week ago, I have not really used it as I don't think I know enough about C yet or about C++, but the thing is I twice just started up the program, today and yesterday, I don't think the program can have been doing much, but after about half a minute it completely crashed Windows!
There was no error warning or anything like it before the crash, not even the infamous blue DOS screen as of course there is no DOS anymore in Windows XP, but the screen goes black and there is a complete system reset...
After starting up I get a message that Windows recovered from a serious fault but there is not much to go on in the technical information, that just says there is a mini Dump collected that you can send to the Microsoft folks. I have not done that yet.
All I can think of that maybe it has something to do with the start-up screen, that goes to the Microsoft site to a webpage displaying new Visual Studio products. Nothing else should be happening, unless the compiler tries to open the small demonstration project that I compiled with it and this crashes the system, but I can't believe it does that without even first being told to go to the Projects Directory. I had not much else running at the time, Internet Explorer 7, the Shredder GUI and antivirus software were the main processes in the background, but these have never caused any problems. I actually have never heard of such a complete crash of Windows XP (Running Win XP Pro 32 bit, Service Pack 2 and latest updates).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening or maybe have experienced something like this? Should I do a reinstall of Visual C++ before trying to run the compiler? Ideas appreciated!
Eelco.