2.7.0.0 installer consistently bluescreens Vista
Posted: 11 Sep 2013 04:19
The 2.7.0.0 installer consistently causes Vista Home Premium 32-bit to bluescreen just after copying filed, "Registering Files", and during or just after "Finalizing Install", when installing over 2.6.0.0 with the default settings except for unchecking UPnP discovery (I have manual port forwarding configured so don't need to use UPnP). Nothing else but Explorer running (and, in particular, 2.6.0.0 not running, nor had been since the previous reboot). I tried it twice with identical results.
This is unacceptable. Not only was this clearly not tested on a still very common operating system, and one that it purports to support, but there is no reason for Shareaza to even be capable of causing a blue screen. Causing a blue screen requires going into kernel mode and then f*#%@ing up in some manner, and the installer has no reason to be doing any futzing about in kernel mode. None of the other kernel-mode code involved (drivers) is a likely culprit, since everything else on the system in question works fine. Just not the 2.7.0.0 installer, which therefore is where the problem exists. In kernel-mode code. Which the 2.7.0.0 installer should have none of, even when run as administrator.
What gives?
This is unacceptable. Not only was this clearly not tested on a still very common operating system, and one that it purports to support, but there is no reason for Shareaza to even be capable of causing a blue screen. Causing a blue screen requires going into kernel mode and then f*#%@ing up in some manner, and the installer has no reason to be doing any futzing about in kernel mode. None of the other kernel-mode code involved (drivers) is a likely culprit, since everything else on the system in question works fine. Just not the 2.7.0.0 installer, which therefore is where the problem exists. In kernel-mode code. Which the 2.7.0.0 installer should have none of, even when run as administrator.
What gives?