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  1. #1
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    ExitWindowsEx leaves Activedesktop trashed... why ?

    Hi,
    I have to call ExitWindowsEx with flag EWX_FORCE set in an application. On some machines it was reported to me that the ActiveDesktop was trashed after starting the machine again.

    Some people reported that even the resolution-settings of the display were not correct.

    Does anybody know about this issues and what causes them ? I could reproduce the ActiveDesktop-Issue on one of my machines under Win98 AND Win2000.

    Thanx in advance for your help

    Juergen

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    Seems this problem has been addressed before:

    http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...hreadid=255351
    Best regards,
    S. Bro

    "I would be happy to deal with my problems one at the time if they would only line up!"
    -Paul Cilwa, "Borland C++ Insider".

    Other useful fora some of which I ruthlessly clipboarded from other peoples footers.

    MSDN: http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/default.asp
    WIN 32 Assembler: http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/
    RDBMS: http://www.dbforums.com
    Robert's Perl Tutorial: http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm
    Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
    Writing Unmaintainable Code: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

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    Uubz, I misread. Not qiote the same problem. Sorry.
    Best regards,
    S. Bro

    "I would be happy to deal with my problems one at the time if they would only line up!"
    -Paul Cilwa, "Borland C++ Insider".

    Other useful fora some of which I ruthlessly clipboarded from other peoples footers.

    MSDN: http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/default.asp
    WIN 32 Assembler: http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/
    RDBMS: http://www.dbforums.com
    Robert's Perl Tutorial: http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm
    Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
    Writing Unmaintainable Code: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

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    Talking never mind

    I know this posting because one of the answers was posted by me

    yeah sometimes old haunts come to life

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    I know the following information is in italian and from an one of USENET more esoteric newsgroups, but the english information in there may provide you with a clue. I cannot gauge the validity of the information though. My italian is a little rusty :-). However, they mention a Microsoft problem report which may have a bearing on your problem. I failed to find it on MSDN though. Hmm?

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...TF-8%26hl%3Den
    Best regards,
    S. Bro

    "I would be happy to deal with my problems one at the time if they would only line up!"
    -Paul Cilwa, "Borland C++ Insider".

    Other useful fora some of which I ruthlessly clipboarded from other peoples footers.

    MSDN: http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/default.asp
    WIN 32 Assembler: http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/
    RDBMS: http://www.dbforums.com
    Robert's Perl Tutorial: http://www.sthomas.net/roberts-perl-tutorial.htm
    Merriam-Webster Online: http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
    Writing Unmaintainable Code: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

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    no, unfortunately there is no clue for my problem in this text that I found also in the MS-Knowledgebase.

    thanx anyway

    Juergen

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