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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Two NEW? Windows bugs?
Message-ID: <12388.27b703d0@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 91 20:51:27 GMT
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Hello,

I've found two new (to me, anyway) bugs in Windows, one mild, and one pretty
nasty.

To reproduce the mild bug, I:
start windows with
c:\> wt
where wt is a 4dos alias for "win c:\telix\telix", which starts Windows up and
runs the Telix comm program full screen.
Now, I press Alt-ENTER to reduce Telix to a window.
BUG: The cursor remains an hourglass and does not revert to the arrow.  It does
function normally, though, and eventually gets reset, after I do some things.

This problem does not really affect me, I'm just mentioning it in case someone
is gathering a list of known Windows bugs (maybe someone as MS :-)

The nasty bug:
I try loading in a 1024x768x256 bmp file as wallpaper, and get a UAE for
Control Panel.  If I try again, C Panel comes up with funny colors, and will
give another UAE if I mess with the wallpaper.  The background colors are also
messed up now.  I try once more, but this time to select a smaller bmp that
does work, and PROGRAM MANAGER gives me a UAE and disappears.  Now I'm 
basically unable to do anything, and have to reboot (Any keystrokes/mouse
clicks give me the "buffer full" beep)  The first time this happened, I was
no longer able to boot off my hard disk, and had to reformat (sys'ing it didn't
work).  The second time I saw this, no damage was done to the hard disk.  I
think the first time, SHARE might not have been loaded in, though (It is a
200MB hard disk as one partition) which might have caused problems.

Has anyone gotten a 1024x768x256 bmp to work as wallpaper?  The bmp I used was
converted from a gif file of the same specs, and works fine in paintbrush and
WinGIF.

My system setup:
Gateway/Micronics 486/25 with 8MB RAM & 20MB swapfile
Diamond SpeedSTAR (Tseng ET4000AX) 1MB video card using Diamond's 1024x768x256
   driver
Smartdrv.sys 2048 1024

NOTE: 800x600x256 bmp's work fine as wallpaper, and I have tiled other smaller
bmp's to fill the whole 1024x768 area w/o any problems.

Again, I don't NEED a solution, but am just looking to see if anyone else can
confirm these bugs.

Bryon Daly
daly@omega.ecs.umass.edu