)
It??™s a piece of junk
OK, maybe this is too harsh, but don??™t discount the possibility that
there??™s simply a bug in the software that is preventing it from running.
Check the software publisher??™s web site for an update, patch, or other
workaround.
Software is an ever-evolving landscape, so don??™t be surprised if you have to
eventually retire an old favorite because it just won??™t run anymore. Of
course, your favorite is likely someone else??™s, too, so it??™s worth a quick web
search to see whether anyone else has come up with a trick to get your program
running on Vista.
Green Ribbon of Death
Don??™t you just love it when something is so notorious for a particular shortcoming
that a new term is invented to describe it? It happened with the Blue
Screen of Death, described in the next section. It happened with the Spinning
Beach Ball of Death in Mac OS X. And it happened with the odd-number
curse, referring to every other Star Trek film.
Now it has happened with Vista??™s own Green Ribbon of Death, shown in
Figure 6-9.
The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen element Microsoft has
sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular
progress bar is the harbinger of death for the active Windows Explorer window,
which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.
Figure 6-9. The Green Ribbon of Death, the harbinger of a Windows Explorer window
that has crashed
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The green progress bar inches across Windows Explorer??™s address bar as
Windows attempts to assemble a list of files to show for the current folder.
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