What application causes this problem? Is it one that came with the computer
or one that you installed?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience



"beerslayer" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi, folks -
>
> I just bought my dad a brand-new laptop computer with Vista 64-bit Home
> Premium pre-installed. Almost immediately, we started noticing a rather
> strange problem with this computer.
>
> Seemingly at random, the operating system decides that it doesn't want
> us to select a file in a file dialog window (if I select Open... within
> an application and then browse to select a document to open, for
> example), and so it closes the browse dialog a few seconds after it
> opens, whether or not a file has been selected, and when it does this,
> the entire application closes as well. For some reason, this dialog
> seems to make its application crash. I've never seen anything quite
> like it before.
>
> Sometimes this browse dialog works without any problem. But once it
> starts happening during a given login session, it will happen every time
> that dialog appears.
>
> Does anyone out there have any clue why this might be happening? The
> computer is brand-new and has very little software of any kind installed
> on it other than the crap that comes pre-installed.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
>
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> beerslayer[/color]