Microsoft KB Archive/166991

= OS/2 Error 1588444941 When Starting OS/2 App as a Service =

Article ID: 166991

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166991



SYMPTOMS
Your attempts to launch the OS/2-based applications may fail when started as a service with OS/2 error 1588444941. The error may still occur even though the application will launch fine in console mode.



CAUSE
The above error indicates a failure loading. This can be because of corruption in either the application or the OS/2 subsystem files.



RESOLUTION
Try to remove and reinstall the application software before you attempt to replace the OS/2 subsystem files as corrupt application files are more often the cause of the error.

To reinstall the OS/2 subsystem use EXPAND.EXE or EXPNDW32.EXE (found in the Windows NT Resource Kit) for the following files:

  OS2SS.EXE    - %SystemRoot%\System32\ OS2.EXE     - %SystemRoot%\System32\ OS2SRV.EXE  - %SystemRoot%\System32\ NETAPI.DLL  - %SystemRoot%\System32\Os2\Dll\ doscalls.dll - %SystemRoot%\System32\Os2\Dll\

Oso001.009 does not need to be expanded, but replace the file in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Os2\ with a fresh copy.

For steps to remove the OS/2 subsystem registry entries please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

ARTICLE-ID: 94566

TITLE : GP Fault in OS/2 Subsystem

Keywords: kbprb kbtshoot KB166991

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