RE: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death

[Scott Wood <treii28@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Bibbs, Christopher" <Christopher_Bibbs@compuware.com> wrote:
> If you have Win95 or Win98 check to see how many copies of MFC42.DLL you
> have.  If it's less than 3 I'd be amazed.

I have seen these things cluttering up various places on my PC as well.

> The stupid thing, of course, is
> that you should only have 1.  It's a Microsoft DLL and the published
> features tend to stay in place as things roll forward.  The problem is,
> Microsoft exposes, but not publish, interfaces that will later go away.
> When developers use those, they need to guarantee a certain version.  How do
> they do it?  Well, they install their version of course.

Although I have seen more on my various installations of win98, the PC that I
am currently on here at work running Win95 has three copies.  Two - the
windows\system and the adaptec installed version appear to be the same. 
Amazingly, the third one is different.  But who was the 'developer' in this
case that bundled it with their software?

Well, it shows up in the Microsoft Personal Web Server 4.0 files...  And PWS
starts at boot time, runnin in the background.  Oh joy!  (and people wonder why
I am so fed up with MS OS's)

Scott

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