On Oct 13 07:33, Fergus wrote: >> > I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems >> > again... > >> Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows >> Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating. > > Maybe I shouldn't blame W7 for the weird Cygwin file mishandling. I > recently observed that every time the ".. stopped working" message appears > on screen, it is matched by the transient occurrence of a McAfee icon in > the taskbar. Of course, it being a work machine, I cannot disable McAfee in > order to research any links between strange Cygwin behaviours and it. Just > love workplace paranoia and the consequent imposed protections: the cure > is, always, so much worse than the disease.
Sounds bad. And then, I ran the tests on a laptop running W7, just not McAfeeized. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
