ergophobe - 4:56 pm on Mar 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

BTW, I found that most of my initial problems with Vista were related to just a couple of applications. For example, Windows Explorer (file browser not internet browser) was crashing constantly. That turned out to be ZipGenius shell integration that was causing it. I switched to IZarc and those problems disappeared. They were, however, seemingly ubiquitous because you're using Windows Explorer so much and it wasn't until I noticed that it didn't crash if there weren't any zipped archives in the directory.

It does strike me, though, that there is something fundamentally wrong with the architecture if a third-party application can hook in in such a way that it can reliably and 100% of the time crash such a low-level utility and I do blame that on Vista.