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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: RE programs crashing in Desqview
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Date: 5 Mar 90 16:08:00 GMT
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   I've found another program I use frequently which crashes in
   Desqview: Fastback Plus, the backup utility.  

   It runs all of its setup and estimate phases OK but then
   when it goes to actually begin the backup it hits a "protection
   violation".   Desqview puts up a pad telling me so and 
   giving me one choice: Abort.   Unfortunately, no amount of
   clicking on the "Abort" actually DOES anything!  If I do "alt"
   and bring up the Desqview menu about *half* the time I can
   close the window, the other half the menu does not respond
   at all and I have to reboot.   Interestingly, I seem to hit
   this protection violation regardless of the protection mode I 
   run the Desqview window in.   Also, the problem seems to exhibit
   itself regardless of whether there are any other programs running
   under Desqview; the only prerequisite is that Fastback be running
   in a Desqview window.   I have never had any problem running 
   Fastback outside of Desqview.

   I'm running Fastback in a 535K window.  The manual does not get real
   specific about the significance of a protection violation except
   to say that *some* programs which experience them are only doing
   something harmless and adds ominously that the user can always 
   run such programs anyway and "hope for the best".   

   I realize, of course, that Fastback probably IS trying to access
   some location it has no right to and that Desqview is only telling
   me about it.  But I would appreciate it if Desqview would handle
   things a litle more gracefully and not lock up when an exception
   like this occurs.

                                                ---Peter


   PS-   A new variation on graphics problems with Desqview:   over
         the weekend I was simultaneously running one of my Zortech C 
         graphics programs and Timeworks' Publish It! DTP program.
         I noticed on two separate occasions (with a reboot in between) 
         that Desqview's menus, including their Change Program came
         up almost unreadable:   not only were the colors all messed 
         up, but there was a double image of all the text!!  Every
         character, including the diamond cursor character, had a little
         echo of itself in a different color, one character position
         to the left!   Has anyone seen this with Desqview before?  

         I just started using Publish It! this weekend but it's a program
         which does a lot of things and considering all the problems
         I've had with simpler programs under Desqview, I'm a little 
         worried about running Publish It! in Desqview; does anyone 
         have any experience with this?   Thanks in advance for any
         comments.