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From: weiman@jargon.whoi.edu (Bob Weiman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: This app has violated system integrity...
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.143721.7586@netnews.whoi.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 14:37:21 GMT
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Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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About once a day I get one of those Windows
messages "This application has violated system
integrity..." from one of my DOS windows.  This
forces me to close all of my DOS windows, exit
Windows, and reboot my machine.  

1) Does anyone know what this message really means?
2) What causes this problem?

I have found that this sometimes happens when I have
several DOS windows open on my machine and it has
been sitting inactive for some time.  I then click
on one of the DOS window and as soon as I begin 
to type, I get the system error message.  This is 
not a repeatable problem, because it only happens
occasionally. Also it doesn't seem to matter what
particular application is running in the DOS window
as far as I can tell.

Also, as soon as one DOS window screws up, All DOS
windows become unusable.  Window apps still work though.
I am using a Dell 425E, 486 computer with 8 megs of RAM
--
Bob Weiman  Internet: bweiman@whoi.edu
            Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
            Deep Submergence Lab
            Woods Hole, MA