Hello brett, On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:42:30PM +1000, Brett Hutley wrote:
> > If you enter C:\aux in the adressline of the IE (not EXPLORER, > > InternetExplorer) and hit enter, the window will freeze. This bug > > is simmilar to C:\con\con > > The problem seems to be related to whether you have permissions to > access the AUX device or not. I couldn't freeze explorer on my notebook > where I don't have permissions to the aux device, but could on a > co-workers machine in which we could access the aux device from the > command line. a good point. My Win 2000 machine which did not have problems did not have any serial devices, so it's not very surprising that this was not a problem. On the other hand, my XP system, which had the problem, does own a serial port. For a quick test, I added a serial port on Com1: to the W2K machine and entered c:\aux again in IE6: It freezes, too. Could it be that the computers of the people who told us "no problems" 1. don't have a serial port, 2. don't have a COM1, 3. have a mouse on COM1, 4. have the debugger (WinDBG) on COM1, or 5. don't have a "real" COM1 but only a virtual one (for example, COM1 is a virtual device of the bluetooth device)? That could explain why there are not freezes. Furthermore, yesterday, I said that I had to log out for my machine to be operable again, since the explorer crashed, too, and did not restart again. With my tests today, I could not reproduce that part, explorer crashed while killing IE, but it restarted immediately. So, this could be unrelated. Just some more investigations from my side, Spiro.
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