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To: Jerry Meng who wrote (3820)	4/4/1998 11:20:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 11149

Jerry, I HAVE talked to them on several occasions about the problem (and there are quite a few past posts on this thread, too). There may be something in the fragmentation idea, but the fundamental problem is some flaw in the implementation of the 16-bit WOW virtual machine environment under NT (which perhaps is indeed triggered by fragmentation). I have had the dern thing crash repeatedly, get disgusted, go to bed, and the next morning it runs through without a hitch. To me this speaks more toward virtual memory handling rather than fragmentation. The WOW VM has a timeout so that it goes away completely and restarts from zero after a while. This usually fixes it for the moment. So sometimes you can just ignore your problems for a while and they go away! <GG> Theoretically the setting I gave you should make this cleanup happen for every 16-bit app you run, but it doesn't seem to do so entirely. All my files are in an NTFS partition (7 gigabytes, actually). At todays prices, you can be 8 gigs of disk space for 300 bucks; maybe a backup is easier than you think.<g> BTW, the Random House Unabridged Dictionary is a 16-bit app I find near essential that has the same problem, and the same fix. Good luck, Spots

To: Jerry Meng who wrote (3820)	4/4/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11149

Jerry, QPlus has been behaving quite well for me since I changed to run in separate memory space as Spots suggested. Another area to watch is available memory and hard drive space. As good as NT is in memory management I still have some stupid programs which crash in low virtual memory and/or low hard drive space situations. After such a crash, the WOW VM task sometimes seems to be left in an unstable state. When that happens, I use task manager to kill the WOW task, instead of rebooting. Hard drives and memory are relative cheap these days, especially compared to the headaches of not having enough of either. CL