On 1/21/2014 1:23 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:43:36 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 1/21/2014 10:36 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:21:55 -0800, thumper wrote:

On 1/20/2014 1:52 PM, Wayne.B wrote:

I have been using Windows based laptops for real time navigation on
all of my boats for the last 15 years, in all kinds of conditions,
several different operating systems, and a bunch of different GPS
devices. None of them has ever experienced a blue screen of death
while underway. BSDs are usually associated with new hardware devices
that do not yet have the correct driver installed. Once you are past
that, everything is usually very solid.

The only app that hangs on my Win7 desktop is iTunes. About 5-10% of
openings are non-responding.

I just reloaded iTunes thinking that was why I couldn't get some of the videos to run on the
internet. like the one Harry posted. That day I loaded three or four programs. None helped. iTunes
is about to get trashed...again.



I doubt your inability to play videos has anything to do with iTunes.
Something is screwy in your setup or you are missing some codex.

Even my ancient and little laptop that I used in the boat and RVs plays
videos fine and it's running XP.


Any of the avi, mpg, mp3, wmv, etc. videos play fine with the various programs I use. The *only*
time I have a problem is in playing some of the videos on the internet. And even then, any video on
youtube plays fine, and most of the videos elsewhere play fine. There are a few, every now and then,
that won't play. It's just weird. But, I'm not losing a whole lot of sleep over it.

Some videos ask to load some hokey player before showing the video to
you. I just skip over them.