"The program is terminated": what are the causes of the error and what should be done in this case?

Every user knows that the basis of any computer is "hardware". From its quality will depend not only the actual capacity of the system, but also its stable operation. However, do not forget about the programs, because without them the computer is just a set of chips.

Of course, in the event of any malfunctioning with them, it is sometimes impossible to work on a computer. One of the most unpleasant situations is the appearance of the message "the program is stopped". Most often it is observed in the case of "Explorer". What kind of error is this and how to avoid it?

Because of what is manifested?

As a rule, such a nuisance is due to a conflict of drivers. New releases are sometimes incompatible with older versions of programs, because of what the system begins to "chudit." Very often this can be seen in old computer games. New drivers on the video card can not provide a reduced color mode, resulting in the program crashes, and sometimes there is a "blue screen of death", more often known as BSOD.

What to do with the drivers?

If the reason is in the drivers, then there may be several solutions to the problems. First, you can simply delete the old version of the conflicting application by installing a fresh release in its place. Secondly, the opposite option is possible: you uninstall the new driver, rolling back to its old version.

As practice shows, the second situation is often encountered, especially when it comes to older versions of operating systems, on which previously released versions of applications are better suited. However, this problem is not always associated with the "discontinuation of the program". Windows 7 at one time suffered a severe "intolerance" of older versions of applications, as they caused problems with the kernel. The fault here was the software manufacturers themselves, who were not in a hurry to release fresh versions.

Other remarks

In addition, there is a reason to pay attention to the programs you use. So, owners of old NVidia cards are strongly not recommended to use those versions of drivers that are offered on the official site. The fact is that during installation they "pull" for themselves such a number of additional applications that they almost inevitably cause problems for users of not the most recent computer hardware.

There is either a significant drop in performance, or you constantly see the message "the program is stopped". How to act in this case? You will have to uninstall the official version of the application, and search for the driver for the video card through the Windows Update service.

How to run Update?

It is very easy to do this. First, delete the old release through "Installing and Removing Programs", reboot the computer. The system immediately begins to look for the missing driver, referring to this for the above service. Once the search, download and installation are complete, you will be prompted to restart the computer again.

As a rule, you will not see the message "the program is stopped" anymore. What to do if the actions taken have not given any result at all? In this case, it is worth considering the compatibility of your equipment and system. You should visit the manufacturer's website and read the forums - maybe you need to refresh the motherboard's BIOS or even buy another model.

Some users have not suffered for a month with a similar problem until, by chance, they changed the video card to a new one. Especially tight in this respect is the users of equipment from ATI. More than once experts have reported on persistent problems in their official versions of drivers, so this is always worth remembering.

Games

How can this be remedied? If the message "the work of the program is terminated" arises in the case of old toys, everything here is rather complicated. You can try to set compatibility mode with the version of Windows OS in which this game worked without complaints.

This is done simply. On the game shortcut, right-click the mouse, and then select the "Properties" item in the pop-up menu that appears. You should be interested in the "Compatibility" tab, which is available in the opened dialog box. Check the box next to the "Run in compatibility mode" option, and then select the version of the Windows OS in which the application worked normally from the drop-down list. Click OK, and then try the program again.

If this did not help

If the application also fails to work in compatibility mode, you will either need to search for its modern counterpart, or you can run from under the virtual machine on which the version of the operating system is installed, for which the program was released.

Older versions of browsers

If, again, we talk about the "Explorer", then the message "the program is terminated" can often be observed by those users on whose computers very old versions of Internet browsers are still installed. Especially this applies to Firefox 3.6, which was simply incompatible with modern operating systems due to some limitations in them. In this case, this kind of error always appears. "The work of the Firefox program is stopped" - this is the message that unlucky users see.

How to solve a problem?

How is this "treated"? Alas, but in this case the recipe can be only one: you have to remove your anachronism from the computer, and then install a new browser. This not only avoids the insulting errors that make it difficult to work on the computer, but also greatly improves the security of your system. The latter is due to the fact that older browsers have such a number of known hackers "holes" in security, that on the Internet using them to travel is simply not safe.

That's why he writes: "The program's work has been stopped." As you can see, there can be a lot of reasons, but almost all of them are related to the outdated version of the software you use on your computer.

Note that such errors are extremely often caused by self-made versions of crackifiers and activators. Often they cause very strong changes in the core of the application itself, and this already leads to serious conflicts.