[Hidden-tech] .VxD question

[Jonathan Dill]

Norton Antivirus / Norton Utilities can do this after running 
LiveUpdate, that is one thing that I have seen happen with Windows98 
before.  The Norton Antivirus kernel driver takes up too much kernel 
memory after an update.  Try searching the Symantec tech support website 
for the error message.  The solution involves booting into Safe Mode 
then adjusting one of the "System" settings.  If I remember or can find 
the tech support article, I will post it later.

stephanie gelfan wrote:

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>.hi all
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>a few days ago, my thirteen-year-old managed to lose an entire wordperfect
>file that he had been working on for months. He was working on a computer
>unning windows 98
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>I tries alll sorts of things to find it, including some Norton utility
>program that actually has found NOTHING , including files that are happliy
>filed in wordperfect.
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>    Anyway, after several fruitless searches, I turned off the computer, and
>the next time I rebooted, the following message came up:
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>    "Terminating thread due to a stack overflow problem. A VxD, possibly
>recently installed, has consumed too much stack space. Increase the setting
>of 'minSPs' in System.INI or remove recently installed VxD's. There are
>currently 5 SPs allocated.
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>                    Press any key to continue"
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>   Does anyone know what it means and if it is significant?  I did press
>another key, at which point the regular desktop appeared, and I have turned
>the computer on and off a few times since then with no problems, but I have
>not gone into wordperfect.
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>    ...and secondarily, does anyone have any other ideas of how to find the
>file? we still have a backup file that dates back to nov 6th, but he worked
>on in more recentlyu than that, and I had re-saved it on december 27th, the
>day that he managed to lose it.
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>thanks, stephanie
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