Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers

By Raymond Chen - August 16th, 2022
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994

Read there more.

 

See, if they had SSDs then it never would have been an issue.

 

Good point, didn't even think about that, although I do remember that some mp4 file always made Win Explorer crash on my Win 8.1 system. Never understood why, and this was on a SSD if I recall correctly.

 

Probably a driver or codec issue.

 

It was very weird, because it was just a simple mp4 file, and other files never crashed. I even thought it was perhaps some exploit, but I didn't see any malware on the system. I think it crashed both Win XP and Win 8.1 though. I guess I will need to try it on Win 10, but I think I deleted the file out of frustration.

 

Interesting. I'd be curious to know if it still does it.

 

Yes too bad, I should have kept the file.