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

 

[Al Dykes]

fwiw works fine on my 32 bit win 7 home premium

And fine on 64 bit Home Ultimate

 

[Blanche Starinski]

maybe you have a virus. scan your system.

 

[milt]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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By far the most likely reason is that your drivers are out of date.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