Vista’s green ribbon of death

We are all familiar (too familiar) with the dreaded Windows blue screen of death. David Karp describes how to prevent an additional problem in Vista that he calls the “green ribbon of death”:

The green ribbon is basically a progress bar, a screen element Microsoft has sadly gone to great pains to excise from Windows Vista. But this particular progress bar is the harbinger of death for the active Windows Explorer window, which, unfortunately, is not uncommon in Vista.

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