Press Windows + E for 5 to 10 Seconds Crashes Vista

This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but if
you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista to
hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty sight.

This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.

Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:18:00 -0700, John wrote:

> This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but if
> you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista to
> hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty sight.
>
> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>
> Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
> Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.

Patient: Doctor, doctor it really hurts when I do this!

Doctor: Well, don't do that.

that's pretty neat.
I did it for about 9 seconds, and it opened 90 windows before I did a C-A-D.
Didn't lock up my computer tho....



"John" <> wrote in message
news:F286EBAF-579E-4A95-8973-...
> This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but
> if
> you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista to
> hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty sight.
>
> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>
> Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
> Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.

> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.

Interesting observation and confirmed. Within a few seconds, I got at least
50 exploer windows, but it stands still and I just closed them all



"John" <> wrote in message
news:F286EBAF-579E-4A95-8973-...
> This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but
> if
> you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista to
> hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty sight.
>
> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>
> Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
> Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.

ray wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:18:00 -0700, John wrote:
>
>> This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but
>> if you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista
>> to hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty
>> sight.
>>
>> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>>
>> Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
>> Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.
>
> Patient: Doctor, doctor it really hurts when I do this!
>
> Doctor: Well, don't do that.

Yeh, but if you hold them down for 20 seconds you get to see a Vista easter
egg. :-)

It doesn't harm my Vista PC - after a while I get a box that advised me that
Explorer has stopped responding and when I click the button to close the
offending program, all the Explorer windows close at once. No harm, no
foul, no crash.

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"xfile" <cou-> wrote in message
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>> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>
> Interesting observation and confirmed. Within a few seconds, I got at
> least 50 exploer windows, but it stands still and I just closed them all
>

Thanks for sharing as well

"Richard G. Harper" <> wrote in message
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> It doesn't harm my Vista PC - after a while I get a box that advised me
> that Explorer has stopped responding and when I click the button to close
> the offending program, all the Explorer windows close at once. No harm,
> no foul, no crash.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> "xfile" <cou-> wrote in message
> news:...
>>> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>>
>> Interesting observation and confirmed. Within a few seconds, I got at
>> least 50 exploer windows, but it stands still and I just closed them all
>>
>
>

"John" <> wrote in message
news:F286EBAF-579E-4A95-8973-...
> This keystroke combination causes Explorer.Exe to popup (by design), but
> if
> you hold down for to long too many Explorer.Exe popup, to causes Vista to
> hang. Don't try it usless you save all your work. It's not a pretty sight.
>
> This repros in XP SP2, but XP does not crash like Vista.
>
> Those Microsoft software engineers, should have design it so only 1
> Explorer.Exe per keystroke combination RELEASE.


Yeah, I tried this... it threw like a friggin' bazzilion Exporer Windows and
my system did get "Fra-eekie Deekie" for two minutes or so... flashing white
windows and the system wouldn't repond... but when the system -did-
respond... I closed all of the Explorer windows, refreshed the desktop and
the taskbar and was good to go. System did not crash.

Lang