zsuppan@uncmed.med.unc.edu (11/15/89)
After working in a Windows session for a while, it frequently happens that
attempts to load and/or run a program from the MS-DOS Executive fails. In
some cases, the hour-glass cursor appears and the load attempt is
accompanied by disk activity. When the load/run failure occurs in this
circumstance, disk activity ceases and the hour-glass cursor disappears as
though the program had been successfully loaded and/or run. In other
cases,an error message appears announcing that insufficient memory is
available for the program to load. Clicking on the MS-DOS Executive File
About box will show this to be untrue, i.e., more than enough memory is
available. These failures occur whether one is working with standard
Windows' application, such as the Clock and Notepad, as well as with SDK
user applications. In some cases, clicking on the About box "results" in
a successful subsequent attempt to load or run a program, and in other
cases one may be able to load and then restore a program when it was
previously impossible to run it. We have also found that the occasional
load/run failure occurs when one program attempts to load another one.
Here the problem is worse because the parent program has no ready means of
detecting this failure.
1.) Is this load/run failure experienced by others too?
2.) Is the reason for it known?
3.) Is there a solution?
Our system configuration is a ALR 20MHz AT/386 running either Windows, or
Windows/386. The failure also occurs when Windows/286 is running under
386-To-The-Max.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Feri Zsuppan (zsuppan@Med.unc.edu)
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