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From: "Mark D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm running Windows 98 SE and crash about 4-5 times a day not counting
the
> times when I have to reboot cause it's just running glitchy.
>
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Mark,
You've probably got 2 or more applications that use .DLL files with the
same name that are in fact different. The most recently used .DLL will
reside in RAM (or RAM cache or something like that) until it is used
again or the RAM is overwritten. If you close an application that uses
(say) abc.DLL and then before the RAM is overwritten you use another
application that has a different system file also called abc.DLL, your
computer will go first to the RAM (because it's faster) to get the file.
Alas, it's the wrong file, sometimes the application locks up or crashes
and sometimes the whole OS crashes.
I have a freeware utility called "Morespace 99" and one of its functions
is to find duplicated files. It's surprising how many different .DLL
files with duplicated names it found. A few apps hit the WPB because
they weren't useful enough for the trouble they made.
It's not entirely Microsofts fault because the duplications are being
made by independent software developers, but they should have foreseen
it. Why there couldn't have been a register of system file names to
prevent the situation I don't know.
Regards,
Anthony Farr
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