Irrlicht Engine

The site says code::block has troubles with Windows Vista platform and is not suggested.

My PC is XP and my laptop is Vista... I alternate programming on them so I would prefer to keep the same IDE on both.

After re-compiling all files in the examples directory they ran but all immidiatly gave me a windows error and shut down imidiatly.

So run them from a cmd, you'll be able to see their output and error message that way.

No luck, I get the same windows error msg:

Example.exe has stopped working!
A proplem has coused the progrm to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
[close program]

Right, but look in the cmd window, what does it say ?

If you are refereing to the cmd window with the header:
C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\Irrlict\01.HelloWorld\example.exe

Irrlicht Engine version 1.6
Microsoft Windows Vista Personal Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)

The later examples at least let you input device drivers before crashing with the window error.