So I had this idea of adding some music to a NASA animation of the Curiosity Mars Rover's landing and rollout (picking Holst's "Mars: The Bringer of War" for the landing and Jeff Wayne's "The Red Weed" from the "War of the Worlds" musical for Curiosity's journey across the Martian surface), so decided to download the vid off YouTube for some soundtrack editing. Unfortunately something went wrong during the conversion which caused the file to be practically unviewable... worse, Windows Vista's auto-indexing proceeded to go berserk every time it encountered it, driving CPU usage for Explorer up to damn near 99% and dragging my system down to a crawl.
But the corrupted Curiosity video file didn't start locking up my system on start-up, oh no. Vista waited just long enough to lull me into a false sense of security... long enough to fire up a game of Oolite and fly "Atomic Annie" safely into the Seedy Space Bar at the Anarch system of Lasoce after knocking off three fugitive raiders en route. Then when I decided to do a screen capture of a rather humorous assassination bulletin the CPU occupancy issue fired up and bit me in the rear right and proper, causing my Oolite session to curl up and die faster than a squadron of raiders in a Q-mine explosion. AAARRGGHH!!!!
After several attempts forcing a reboot each time I finally managed to kill the offending video file, eventually having to force Vista into safe mode and go in via the command line in order to do so.
Now I have to do the Lasoce run again...
