#3 The Infamous Solitaire Bug
On some systems (there appears to be no specific correlations such as a certaing program installed, 9x/NT, etc.) Microsoft Solitaire will not run per
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q237/9/00.asp
Josh Straub (tookycat@nconnect.net)has submitted:
Okay here it goes. I was using a different product, WinGlide, which is a
freeware DLL that allows 3Dfx Voodoo accelerators to be used as windowed
accelerators instead of the fullscreen-only manner they are designed for.
It does this by copying the frame buffer off the card and blasting it to the
2D display adapter. Anyhow it allows OpenGL programs to run in a window too
such as GLQuake and there is an option to add items to the app's system menu
in order to resize and change rendering options but the author made a note
that you cannot enable the option on apps that add things to their own
system menu or it may confuse their order. Herein lies the problem! It's
TraySaver's Minimize to Tray thing and the WndSpy.dll. I also read your log
saying that TraySaverB7 fixed the solitaire problem by removing Minimize to
Tray. Isn't it obvious now!? I also have had TraySaver crashes using the
excellent hard-core C-coded Rix2K apps (www.radsoft.net), it seems when they
add their Tray icon, it crashes TraySaver, because they have their own
icon-restoring functionality (like ICQ). But they also add to their system
menu. I didn't think solitaire did it too but apparently so. So if I
remove the Minimize to Tray option checkbox on B10 under NT4 and reboot, do
you think that will not only solve ALL my problems but also eliminate the
unbelievably excessive page faulting? Oh, BTW sol.exe never crashed under
NT4 but only Win98; I dual boot. But either way it'd solve all my problems
it seems.
I'd like to make clear, sol.exe has never crashed under NT4 due to TraySaver. It only crashes because of TraySaver under Win98. Perhaps only the Win98 sol.exe manipulates the system menu. I am nearly positive this is specifically a Win9x issue. Josh Straub / tookycat@nconnect.net