Microsoft KB Archive/66654

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INFO: Possible Causes for System Resource Reduction

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Q66654

3.00 3.10 WINDOWS kbprg

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1

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SUMMARY
You can note via Program Manager's &quot;About Box&quot; that Windows's System Resources can be inadvertently reduced by a Windows-based application, causing subsequent RegisterWindow or CreateWindow function calls to fail.

The system resources are a reflection of the lower USER and GDI's data segments. The following steps eliminate the major causes of USER's data segment fill-up listed in the following:


 * Ensure that the cbClsExtraBytes and cbWndExtraBytes are set to 0 in the WNDCLASS structure, unless the application is definitely using them.
 * Ensure that a MakeProcInstance is performed and the window procedure is EXPORTed in the .DEF file.
 * Use CVW to verify that the application is receiving the WM_CREATE message.
 * Confirm that all menus created, loaded, or added dynamically [that is, using CreateMenu, AppendMenu, and so forth] are properly destroyed before terminating the application.

The main reason why GDI's data segment fills up is that objects are being created and are not being destroyed when they are no longer needed.

Additional query words: 3.00 3.10

Keywords : kb16bitonly kbSDKPlatform kbSysSettings

Issue type : kbinfo

Technology : kbAudDeveloper kbWin3xSearch kbSDKSearch kbWinSDKSearch kbWinSDK310