I have Vegas 6d, however, I've seen this problem with earlier versions (like "b" or "c", I guess). I love using Vegas for video editing - and, so far, I've done simple SD projects. I had previously been using Adobe Premier 1.5, but got tired of the constant crashes. It was a relief to use Vegas which didn't seem to crash at all...

...however. My problem occurs when I'm finished editing. I go to close the program and it seems to shut down. Then, Windows itself just dies. It's a complete crash. Upon system restart, I get a message that Windows has recovered from a serious error. I log the error to Microsoft and they report back that there was a driver problem.

With all the other programs I run, nothing like this ever happens.

Has anyone else experienced this? I've searched the forum and have come across folks with crashes during operations (usually rendering). But, in my case, it's only after something like that has been done.

I have gone the route of blowing dust off of the CPU chip fins. I have lots of storage and memory. With Vegas active, I can swap between it and other programs and do stuff sumultaneously. It's only when I do a program exit that things go terribly bad. I've gotten into the habit of closing all other programs before shutting off Vegas knowing that it's highly likely the operating system will die.