Google Earth locks up in Win 7

[Tom from WI]

When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks up

and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is a 32

bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home Premium.



Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.



Any solutions?



Tom

 

[Michael Walraven]

fwiw works fine on my 32 bit win 7 home premium



"Tom from WI" wrote in message

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> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is a

> 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

> Premium.

>

> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>

> Any solutions?

>

> Tom

 

[Al Dykes]

In article ,

Michael Walraven wrote:

>fwiw works fine on my 32 bit win 7 home premium

>



And fine on 64 bit Home Ultimate





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Al Dykes

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[Blanche Starinski]

maybe you have a virus. scan your system.





"Tom from WI" wrote in message

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> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is a

> 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

> Premium.

>

> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>

> Any solutions?

>

> Tom

 

[milt]

On 4/8/2010 12:22 AM, Tom from WI wrote:

> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is

> a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

> Premium.

>

> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>

> Any solutions?

>

> Tom



Sounds like a Google Earth problem, not a Win7 problem.

 

[HiThere]

"Tom from WI" wrote in

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> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program

> locks up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7

> PCs. One is a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have

> Win 7 Home Premium.

>

> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>

> Any solutions?

>

> Tom

>



Works fine on my Win 7 Home Premium.

 

[Allen]

Tom from WI wrote:

> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is

> a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

> Premium.

>

> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>

> Any solutions?

>

> Tom

Have you tried re-downloading GE?

 

[Tom from WI]

"Allen" wrote in message

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> Tom from WI wrote:

>> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

>> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is

>> a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

>> Premium.

>>

>> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>>

>> Any solutions?

>>

>> Tom

> Have you tried re-downloading GE?



Yes. I re-installed it, didn't help. Works great without the Street View,

which has the advantage that all of those annoying cameras don't clutter

things up.

Tom

 

[johnbee]

"Tom from WI" wrote in message

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>

>

> "Allen" wrote in message

> news:YdmdnUIWrcmPjCPWnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com...

>> Tom from WI wrote:

>>> When I turn on the Street View option in Google earth, the program locks

>>> up and becomes unusable. Is does this on two different Win 7 PCs. One is

>>> a 32 bit laptop, the other is a 64 bit desktop. Both have Win 7 Home

>>> Premium.

>>>

>>> Note: It doesn't lock up on my old Vista PC.

>>>

>>> Any solutions?

>>>

>>> Tom

>> Have you tried re-downloading GE?

>

> Yes. I re-installed it, didn't help. Works great without the Street View,

> which has the advantage that all of those annoying cameras don't clutter

> things up.

> Tom



By far the most likely reason is that your drivers are out of date. Even if

the PC is new, the drivers might need updating. My PC was bought from a

specialist PC builder for quite a high price and one set of drivers was

dated March 2008. Incidentally, updating drivers has suddenly turned into

a big bother.



Also my old XP machine (3.8 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB memory) struggled with

Google Earth on street view so if you have an oldish PC and click things a

lot expecting too much you will get it in a twist.