title: PHP -> CLI has stopped working
body: <p>I recently installed Windows 7 on my desktop and the following problem has begun occuring:</p>
  
  <p>I regularly run some PHP scripts from the commandline that are now giving this error in a popup window:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CLI has stopped working.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I cancel this and my script terminates. Not good...</p>
  
  <p>I've googled around and tried most of the few ideas suggested but still i am plagued by this annoyance. Right now it appears to regularly occur when I do a file_get_contents() of a url pointing to an image file. Only happens when the url is http protocol, works fine for ftp files. It also happens spuriously doing other things as well.</p>
  
  <p>This is PHP 5.3.0 as distributed in a xampp 1.7.2 .zip. All exe's and dll's have been unblocked by copying thru FAT32 and back.</p>
  
  <p>hints from anyone who's cracked this would be most helpful.</p>