Win 7 Problems

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Harry Strybos

Hi All

I, and all of my team, are getting the occasional "Visual Studio needs to
close" with VS 2008 SP1 running on Win 7 which we never got underWin XP Pro
SP3.

Has anyone seen this problem?

My machine is Win 7 Pro on a I7 Processor (32 bit) with 8g RAM (yeah, I
know, Win 7 32 bit only handles 4 g), however, I have been told that Win 7
can use the extra RAM....??? The other guys have just 4g of RAM. All
machines are either new or have had a format and clean install of Win 7

Cheers
 
Harry Strybos said:
Hi All

I, and all of my team, are getting the occasional "Visual Studio needs to
close" with VS 2008 SP1 running on Win 7 which we never got underWin XP
Pro SP3.

Has anyone seen this problem?

My machine is Win 7 Pro on a I7 Processor (32 bit) with 8g RAM (yeah, I
know, Win 7 32 bit only handles 4 g), however, I have been told that Win 7
can use the extra RAM....??? The other guys have just 4g of RAM. All
machines are either new or have had a format and clean install of Win 7

Cheers
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Lets start with the 8 Gig assertion "I have been told that Win 7 can use the
extra RAM". Absolute rubbish! With a 32 bit OS, the address space is 4 Gig,
period.

As to your VS 2008 issue. As I have several labs (at a college) with VS 2008
SP1 installed w/ Win 7 x86 and have no reports of similar behavior (IOW,
it's not a pervasive issue), I think you will have to supply more detailed
information about the project types and situations when the failures occur
before you gat useful suggestions.
 
I, and all of my team, are getting the occasional "Visual Studio needs
to close" with VS 2008 SP1 running on Win 7 which we never got
underWin XP Pro SP3.

Has anyone seen this problem?
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No, but I am sure I don't have 100% equivalent setup, so it would not
matter. I have seen VS crash, however.
My machine is Win 7 Pro on a I7 Processor (32 bit) with 8g RAM (yeah,
I know, Win 7 32 bit only handles 4 g), however, I have been told that
Win 7 can use the extra RAM....??? The other guys have just 4g of RAM.
All machines are either new or have had a format and clean install of
Win 7
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If 32-bit, you have been lied to. If you are on 64-bit, you can use more
than 4 GB.

Try this link:
http://tinyurl.com/ybsrlmc

I just blogged that as I have seen some VS issues lately and want to
make sure it is Google-able.

Peace and Grace,

--
Gregory A. Beamer (MVP)

Twitter: @gbworld
Blog: http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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Harry said:
Hi All

I, and all of my team, are getting the occasional "Visual Studio needs to
close" with VS 2008 SP1 running on Win 7 which we never got underWin XP Pro
SP3.

Has anyone seen this problem?
Click to expand...

I have VS 2008 installed on two different laptops with Windows 7 x64,
and I don't experience any such problems. (VS is still a 32 bit
application, so it shouldn't make any difference that the OS is 64 bit.)

It's likely that the problem is related to something specific that you
all share, like a conflicting application that you all run (Real player?
VPN client? ...?) or a solution or project file that is corrupted.
My machine is Win 7 Pro on a I7 Processor (32 bit) with 8g RAM (yeah, I
know, Win 7 32 bit only handles 4 g), however, I have been told that Win 7
can use the extra RAM....???
Click to expand...

No, Windows 7 x86 can only handle 4 GB of RAM. It's not the OS that is
the limitation, the hardware can only access about 3,5 GB of memory, the
rest of the 4 GB address space is reserved for device interfaces.
 
I have a Windows 7 X64 with VS 2008 team system dev system and only web
development on a local IIS with teamsystems
is a pain in the @SS for the rest it works flawless


regards

Michel
 
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