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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11437)	11/8/2000 4:31:02 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

User resources and Windows 2000... As I understand it, Win2000 still requires this 'resource', but is able to expand it when necessary. I'm not familiar with Win2000 in general, or this issue in particular, first hand: I'm only parroting what I've read or heard. Cheers, PW. P.S. Perhaps mark has a Windows 2000 learning thread in the plans somewhere. If so, those who are wrestling with this new(ish) system would have a place to turn when they're stuck.

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11437)	11/8/2000 7:24:39 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

does this mean that the GDI has been deleted or improved in W2k so as to eliminate this seemingly constant crash threat? The GDI interface in Windows 2000 has been improved. In Windows 2000 the GDI data storage area uses 32 bit addressing and installing more memory increases the size of the GDI data storage area. Whereas in Windows 98 the GDI data storage area uses 16 bit addressing and has a maximum size of 64k bytes. However, because the Windows 2000 GDI data storage area uses 32 bit addressing some old Windows 3.1, 95 and 98 programs may not be compatible with Windows 2000. Take a look at some of the messages Moving Sphere has posted recently. He has had very good results in upgrading to Windows 2000 to eliminate Windows 98 GDI and User resource limitation problems.