I wish that was so. But, and I dont think I mentioned this earlier, I do see this happen randomly (although with a lot less frequency) in other applications. I would say that the next-often app to exhibit this behavior in Vista, after those previously mentioned, is Internet Explorer.
The PITA thing with Internet Explorer, is that it will try to re-start itself in this situation. -- ME2 On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Joe Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > ME2, > > The problems that you are seeing could just be a result of poor programming > practices. When a program ends normally, it should "return 0" to the > shell. It sounds like in some of these cases it is returning something > other than 0, causing Vista/Win7 to thing that the program terminated > abnormally. > > Just something I have seen working in a Unix/Linux/Shell (perl/bash) world. > > HTH, > > Joe Fox > Systems/Network Administrator > > Mobile# (716) 846-9308 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I dont have any issues with Steam or any Steam apps playing integrated >> or standalone. The only issues I see is when I quit a game/app. >> Vista thinks the app crashed even though I gracefully quit. >> >> -- >> ME2 >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I was tooling around yesterday on Windows 7 apps, and people were >> > complaining about the steam engine. Saying that if you played some of >> > those >> > games without steam then they worked (the demo or something). >> > >> > Apparently, IIRC Windows 7 works better with steam. I was looking for >> > City >> > of Heroes which works fine in Win7 and just recall seeing several posts >> > about steam vista/win7 >> > >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:59 AM >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > Subject: Vista annoyance >> > >> > I run Vista Ultimate 64-bit at home, and I have been experiencing an >> > annoyance since day-one of installing it (tried reinstalling it as >> > well). The thing is, with specific programs, when I close them - >> > Vista thinks they have crashed. The applications have otherwise >> > closed properly, but Vista doesn't think so - and activates its >> > Problem Reports and Solutions tool. This frequently happens when >> > closing applications such as WinAmp, Firefox, Trillian, as well as >> > various Games that are installed via Steam (the error is centralized >> > to Steam itself, and not the various game I may have been playing >> > (could be Team Fotress 2, Left 4 Dead, Peggle Deluxe, Bioshock, >> > Portal). >> > >> > I haven't had much luck resolving this, and its taken a secondary >> > priority because nothing actually seems to be wrong. >> > >> > Has anyone else experienced this behavior? >> > >> > -- >> > ME2 >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> > >> > >> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
