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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Try calling your app "DISPLAY.EXE"
Message-ID: <106580002@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:11:40 GMT
References: <1281@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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No, this isn't in the manuals, but knowing a bit about how Windows works helps.

The device drivers for MSW have module names DISPLAY, MOUSE, and KEYBOARD.
When a program is run, the module name is kept in memory.  If you try to
run a program with the same name as a module that has already been loaded,
then Windows assumes that the program has already been loaded and just
re-executes the in-memory version.

This is also why you want to make sure the NAME/LIBRARY line in the .DEF file
matches the program name.  If it doesn't, Windows gets confused as to 
whether the program is already loaded or not.

--Bill Turner