Weirdest application crash
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I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
I run an electronics design program called Protel that traps its own exceptions and handles them itself, so I never get a Windows exception box. Their custom box has nothing but an OK button, and the program continues just as if the exception never occured. Usually this is good - it gives time to save the file before quitting and restarting. Occasionally, however, it crashes as it shuts down, but if you click OK it just continues without exiting. Then of course the next time I try to exit it has another exception... It's just one unstoppable loop. The only way to close it in this circumstance is to use Task Manager. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
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David Wulff wrote: useful especially if you have a dodgy driver somewhere but aren't sure which one. :confused: Don't you just read the memory dump file? Or am I just wierd? Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact"You can, but that does'nt usually help very much unless you know what the driver is, and Microsoft's OCA both tells you that and how to resolve it. For example many months ago I had a sound card driver that was causing my graphics card to produce locking faults left right and centre with no indication that it wasn't the graphics driver at fault. A few weeks later I got an e-mail back from OCA telling me the problem had been investigated and where to go to fix it.
David Wulff
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You can, but that does'nt usually help very much unless you know what the driver is, and Microsoft's OCA both tells you that and how to resolve it. For example many months ago I had a sound card driver that was causing my graphics card to produce locking faults left right and centre with no indication that it wasn't the graphics driver at fault. A few weeks later I got an e-mail back from OCA telling me the problem had been investigated and where to go to fix it.
David Wulff
Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped
lol. I was only joking (perhaps I need a wulffometer like you :)). I've never actually got an NT/2k/XP BSOD (yes I know I'm lucky) so I've never had to worry about working out the problem :). I can imagine that it would be difficult to trace though. Ryan Being little and getting pushed around by big guys all my life I guess I compensate by pushing electrons and holes around. What a bully I am, but I do enjoy making subatomic particles hop at my bidding - Roger Wright (2nd April 2003, The Lounge)
Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late - John Nichol "Point Of Impact" -
I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
Back when I was a baby programmer, I threw together some silly little uninstaller for some QA tools. It basically ran 2 or 3 other EXEs and waited on them. One was a console app, and if you moved the mouse into the console window, you'd get a crash message. But the app would keep running! :confused: Eventually I realized that I hadn't initialized a
STARTUPINFOstruct to all 0s, so there was garbage in some fields that the OS was thinking was real data. --Mike-- "So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us right back where we started, only more confused than before." -- Matt Gullett Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber -
Back when I was a baby programmer, I threw together some silly little uninstaller for some QA tools. It basically ran 2 or 3 other EXEs and waited on them. One was a console app, and if you moved the mouse into the console window, you'd get a crash message. But the app would keep running! :confused: Eventually I realized that I hadn't initialized a
STARTUPINFOstruct to all 0s, so there was garbage in some fields that the OS was thinking was real data. --Mike-- "So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us right back where we started, only more confused than before." -- Matt Gullett Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabberMichael Dunn wrote: One was a console app, and if you moved the mouse into the console window, you'd get a crash message. But the app would keep running! It takes talent to do that, but not the type I care to encourage. ;P Just joking, Mike. My skills are nowhere near yours.
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I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
Back when I still used Windows 98 for programming, a version of the Visual C++ IDE had a user resource leak. It really annoyed me at the time, because I'd be able to do 10-20 minutes of coding and debugging before I had to restart because my resources dropped too low. One day I was fed up with it, so I continued past the danger zone, and eventually UI stuff started drawing weird and I got 6's on buttons and combo boxes instead of their actual labels. I think I eventually switched to NT 4 after that incident.
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Back when I still used Windows 98 for programming, a version of the Visual C++ IDE had a user resource leak. It really annoyed me at the time, because I'd be able to do 10-20 minutes of coding and debugging before I had to restart because my resources dropped too low. One day I was fed up with it, so I continued past the danger zone, and eventually UI stuff started drawing weird and I got 6's on buttons and combo boxes instead of their actual labels. I think I eventually switched to NT 4 after that incident.
Heh :) Win 9x does "interesting" things when it runs low on GDI resources. Like, fonts start getting messed up (you'll see System bold on the Start menu instead of MS Sans Serif, for starters) --Mike-- "So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us right back where we started, only more confused than before." -- Matt Gullett Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
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Heh :) Win 9x does "interesting" things when it runs low on GDI resources. Like, fonts start getting messed up (you'll see System bold on the Start menu instead of MS Sans Serif, for starters) --Mike-- "So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us right back where we started, only more confused than before." -- Matt Gullett Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber
White title bars, 0's and 1's instead of scroll arrows, icon masks instead of icons, large message boxes with the system stock font instead of the message font, unpainted screen areas - I'm using Win98, and I've seen it all. X|
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I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
I have totally lost the IE toolbars (address, nav buttons, etc) on one computer. The only way I can navigate is to set the home page, exit IE and restart it. Since I only ever go to CodeProject on that particular computer, it isn't an issue! Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
Open File dialog in Office 2003 BETA 2. Click Desktop. "That feature is not installed, would you like to install it?" But you knew that one already ;)
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I just had the context menu in IE crash. Not something I thought was possible but on right clicking I got a GPF, but the rest of the app was fine (kind of). I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer right click. It just got me thinking: what's the strangest behaviour you've seen in a application gone wrong? cheers, Chris Maunder
> I could scroll, click back and forward, open links, but I could no longer > right click. I remember seeing this once or twice, I think with some browser on Win2K (can't remember the exact version), and I don't think I've seen it since I moved to XP. Everything was perfectly fine with the browser, only there was no way to resurrect the right-click menu...funny thing is that I was on some site with nice hi-res wallpapers at the time, and I figured the guy who designed it disabled the right-click event to keep visitors from saving the bitmaps (as if that ever worked)... Then I realized there was a problem when *every* instance of IE displayed this behavior, even on "about:blank". :-D