I try to log onto Yahoo games, (Spades) and as it starts to download my computers completely shut down. WHY?

Question

My computers completely reboots every time I try to play Spades. I have also gone to Pogo to play the game and the same thing happens. Am I missing a certain drive on my computer? I am running Windows XP. I have played Yahoo games on other computers. What is the problem?

Answer 1

I use XP! try doing the following things.
Yahoo games, mail, and messenger, have conflicts with sun java. Rather then trying to work around them. Here is the easy and fastest way to cure them. These simple setting changes will fix 90% of all problems caused by java updates. While you need java for most yahoo sites, you do not need sun java’s virtual machine to launch them.
You can set default here! ... click start / settings / control panel
Now open the add / remove programs folder
Click on set program access and defaults
Choose Microsoft's Virtual Machine java ... NOT... Sun java.
next; Right click on explorer properties, clear cookies, temp files. Now Log on to yahoo mail 1st minimize it then go to games. I have no problem getting into” ANY” game using these settings. Make the changes,then click on tools,internet options,delete cookies. Then log on to mail, minimize it then go to game.
Since you have Xp, do this also for better preformance out of your pc; Go to start, run, type in msconfig, click start up tab. Uncheck everything BUT your antivirus program. Reboot, now all those programs are not running automaticly but will only start when needed